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Nirbhaya convict approaches L-G, seeks to commute death sentence to life imprisonment

Nirbhaya convict approaches L-G, seeks to commute death sentence to life imprisonment

A woman demonstrating no rape written on her hands (Representative image)

Vinay Sharma, one of the death-row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape case, has approached Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal through his lawyer AP Singh, seeking to commute the death sentence to life imprisonment.

Advocate Singh has filed a petition under Sections 432 and 433 of CrPC seeking to suspend death sentence.

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Vinay Sharma through his advocate prayed that the convict does not deserve the extreme punishment of death, which is reserved for the `'rarest of rare' cases where the alternative option of life imprisonment is unquestionably foreclosed.

Considering the positive steps towards reformation, his young age, poor socio-economic circumstances, the petitioner has prayed to commute his death sentence to life imprisonment.

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The case pertains to the brutal gang-rape and killing of a 23-year-old paramedical student in a moving bus on the night of December 16, 2012, by six people including a juvenile in the national capital.

The woman had died at a Singapore hospital a few days later.