Delhi High Court grants Nirbhaya case convict a month to prove juvenility
New Delhi/UNI: Delhi High Court on Thursday granted a month to one of the convicts in the Nirbhaya case for filling fresh documents to prove that he was a juvenile at the time of the crime in December, 2012.
Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the convicts, had on Wednesday, filed a petition before Delhi High Court through his counsel seeking to be declared a juvenile at the time of the incident and sought that his case be conducted under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act.
The counsel alleged that ossification test of Gupta was not conducted by the Investigating Officer in the case. He requested that his case be conducted under the provision of section 7A of Juvenile Justice Act which defines that a claim of juvenility may be taken before any court and even after final disposal of the case.
Gupta, along with three convicts-- Mukesh, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Kumar Singh--, was awarded death sentence by Patiala House Court and the case for issuance of death warrants will be heard by Additional Session Judge Satish Kumar Arora on January 7, 2020.
He submitted through his petition that the Investigating Officer may be directed to conduct his ossification test to ascertain his claim of juvenility.
On the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012, a 23-year-old paramedic student was gang-raped and brutally assaulted in a running bus in south Delhi by six persons and thrown out on the road. She succumbed to her injuries on December 29, 2012 at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.
One of the accused who was found juvenile in the crime was convicted by a Juvenile Justice Board and released from a reformation home after serving a three year term.
Delhi High Court Justice Suresh Kumar Kait today after hearing the petition filed on behalf of Gupta granted one month's time to his counsel for filing fresh documents to substantiate his claim and adjourned the matter for January, 24 for further hearing.
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