Nirbhaya Case: SG tells Delhi HC; deliberate, well-thought out attempt to frustrate process of law by convicts

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on Sunday told the Delhi High Court that there is "deliberate, calculated and well thought of design" by Nirbhaya case convicts to frustrate process of law by getting their hanging deferred.

The Solicitor General told justice Suresh kait that convict Pawan Gupta’s act of not submitting curative and mercy plea is intentional, calculated lack of action.

Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case convicts are playing with judicial machinery and trying the patience of the nation, Mehta said.

"There is deliberate, calculated and well thought of design to frustrate mandate of law," the Solicitor General told HC.

Legal representative A P Singh is proceeding arguments for convicts Akshay Singh (31), Vinay Sharma (26) and Pawan (25) opposing Centre's plea to set aside stay on execution of death sentence. The fourth convict is Mukesh Kumar (32).

The Delhi high court is hearing Centre's petition challenging stay on the execution of the four convicts in the case.

The proceedings are currently underway.

The 23-year-old, referred to as Nirbhaya, was gang raped and murdered on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 inside a moving bus in south Delhi by six persons, before being thrown out on the road.

She died on December 29, 2012 in Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital.

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