Nirbhaya case: Delhi govt rejects convict Mukesh's mercy plea

Nirbhaya case: Delhi govt rejects convict Mukesh's mercy plea

The mercy plea was forwarded to the Lieutenant Governor, who has now sent it to Union Ministry of Home Affairs.

Mukesh Singh is one of the four men sentenced to death in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. (File photo: PTI)

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The Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government on Thursday rejected the mercy plea of Mukesh, one of the convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya case.

The mercy plea was then forwarded to the Lieutenant Governor, who has now sent it to Union Ministry of Home Affairs.

The convicts were sentenced to death for raping a 23-year-old woman in a moving bus in the national capital on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012.

The victim, who was later given the name Nirbhaya, had succumbed to injuries at a hospital in Singapore where she had been airlifted for medical treatment.