Delhi gangrape case: Victim's mother seeks impleadment
New Delhi/UNI: Mother of the victim of the December 16, 2012, gang-rape and murder case on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to be impleaded as a party in the review petition filed by one of the four death row convicts, Akshay Kumar Singh, scheduled for hearing on December 17, Tuesday.
A bench, headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde, allowed her plea.
Akshay Kumar Singh, one of the convicts in the brutal crime, had recently filed a review petition challenging the death penalty awarded to him in the case.
Singh has sought a review in the case and sought modification of the order of the top court.
"My client is seeking review and he has filed a review petition thereby before the Supreme Court," said his counsel A P Singh.
Support Our Journalism
We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism
IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.
