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The bench had prima facie agreed with the contention of

Ramachandran that provision of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), relating to sentencing of convicts, has not been followed in letter and spirit by the trial court in the case.

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Ramachandran that provision of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), relating to sentencing of convicts, has not been followed in letter and spirit by the trial court in the case.

A 23-year-old paramedic was brutally assaulted and gangraped by six persons in a moving bus in south Delhi and thrown out of the vehicle with her male friend on the night of December 16, 2012. She had died in a Singapore hospital on December 29 that year.

The trial court had awarded death penalty to convicts, Mukesh, Pawan, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Kumar Singh. The fifth and one of the key accused, Ram Singh, had allegedly committed suicide inside jail during the trial.

Besides senior advocate Ramachandran, another senior lawyer Sanjay Hegde is also assisting the court as amicus curiae in the matter.

While Ramachandran is assisting the court in appeals of convicts Mukesh and Pawan, Hegde is assisting in appeals of convicts, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Kumar Singh.

These four convicts had approached the apex court against the Delhi High Court's March 13, 2014 verdict which had said that their offence fell in the rarest of rare category and had upheld the death sentence awarded to them by the trial court.

The prime accused, Ram Singh, was found dead in a cell in Tihar Jail in March 2013 and proceedings against him were abated.

 

(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

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