2012 convict seeks restoration of his legal remedies

NEWDELHI: Mukesh Singh, one of the four death-row convicts in the 2012 gang-rape and murder case, moved a plea in the Supreme Court on Friday, seeking restoration of all his legal remedies, alleging his lawyers misled him.

The Supreme Court is likely to hear on Monday the plea of Mukesh, who sought quashing of all orders passed by courts and the rejection of his mercy petition by the president since the day his curative petition was dismissed by the apex court.

The plea, filed through advocate M L Sharma, sought a CBI probe into what he alleged was “criminal conspiracy” and “fraud” hatched by the Centre, the Delhi government and advocate Vrinda Grover, who is the amicus curiae in the case.

On Thursday, a trial court issued fresh warrants with March 20, 5.30 am, as the date for the execution of the convicts — Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31).

“Petitioner (Mukesh) is victim of criminal conspiracy and fraud played and hatched jointly by the R-1 (Ministry of Home Affairs), R-2 (Delhi government) and R-3 (Vrinda Grover) and other advocate who appeared in the session court, high court and the Supreme Court in the petitioner’s death warrant case.

It contended the respondents “knowingly and deliberately” for vested and political interests hatched a joint criminal conspiracy against Mukesh Singh and visited Tihar Jail and met the petitioner asking him to sign various documents.