Nirbhaya convict Mukesh moves SC for legal remedies
New Delhi: Mukesh Singh, one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case, moved a plea in the Supreme Court, seeking restoration of all his legal remedies alleging his lawyers misled him. The court is likely to hear his plea on Monday. The plea sought a CBI probe into alleged “criminal conspiracy” and “fraud” hatched by the Centre, the Delhi government and advocate Vrinda Grover.
New Delhi, March 6: Mukesh Singh, one of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya case, moved a plea in the Supreme Court on Friday, seeking restoration of all his legal remedies alleging lawyers misled him.
The top court is likely to hear on Monday the plea of Mukesh, who has also 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 alleged “criminal conspiracy” and “fraud” hatched by the Centre, the Delhi government and advocate Vrinda Grover, who is the amicus curiae in the case.
The petition claimed the limitation period to file a curative petition was three years from the date of dismissal of the review plea and sought to “restore” the rights available to him and allow him to file curative and mercy petitions till July 2021.
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 (home ministry), R-2 (Delhi government) and R3 (Vrinda Grover) and other advocate who appeared in the session court, high court and the Supreme Court in the petitioner's death warrant case. They compelled him to sign various papers under threat of session court order (which was never issued by the session court) stating that the court has directed her to secure various signed documents from him to file various petitions, including curative petition,” the plea said.