Three of the four death row convicts in the December 16 gangrape and murder case have moved Delhi High Court, challenging a 10-year jail term awarded to them by a trial court in a robbery case.
Akshay Kumar Singh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma, who were convicted for dacoity and dishonestly receiving stolen property, have alleged that the trial court’s order was “bad in law” and “against the principle of natural justice”.
Besides the trio, the court on 2 September 2015 awarded a 10 year imprisonment to convict Mukesh, saying that they did not deserve “any leniency.” It also imposed a fine of Rs 1.01 lakh each on the four convicts, who are currently lodged in Tihar jail.
Six people, including a juvenile, had beaten up and had robbed carpenter Ram Adhar before raping and brutally assaulting a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in south Delhi on the night of December 16, 2012.
As per the charge sheet in the robbery case, the police alleged that bus driver Ram Singh, his brother Mukesh, the juvenile and the three accused had snatched the 35-year-old carpenter’s mobile phone and Rs 1,500 after luring him into the bus.
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