NEW DELHI: President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday rejected the mercy petition of Vinay Sharma, one of the four death row convicts in the December 2012 gang-rape and murder case.
Vinay Sharma had filed his mercy petition before President on Wednesday urging him to listen to his side of the story “when nobody did”, his lawyer said.
AP Singh, who represents Vinay Sharma, had said the death row convict has stated that he feels that he has “died several times already” in prison during the pendency of judicial proceedings.
The Supreme Court has already rejected the curative petition of Vinay.
On Friday, a Delhi court had deferred the hanging of the four convicts—Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh—until further orders.
The court was hearing a plea filed by Vinay Sharma, who had sought that the death warrant issued by the court on January 17, for the second time, be stayed in the wake of the mercy petition pending before the President.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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