New Delhi [India], Mar 19 : One of the death row convict in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, Akshay Singh Thakur, on Thursday moved to the Supreme Court challenging the rejection of mercy petition by the President of India.
Thakur had earlier filed a "second mercy petition" before the President claiming that the first one, which was rejected on February 5, did not have complete facts of the matter.
During a hearing in a Delhi court earlier today, the public prosecutor had informed that President Ram Nath Kovind had not entertained the mercy petition filed by the convicts.
On February 1, Thakur had filed a mercy petition before the President of India.
So far, the mercy petitions of all the death row convicts in the case have been rejected.
This comes as the four convicts -- Mukesh Singh, Akshay Singh Thakur, Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta -- are scheduled to be hanged at 5.30 am on March 20.
The case pertains to the brutal gang-rape and killing of a 23-year-old paramedical student in a moving bus on the night of December 16, 2012, by six people including a juvenile in the national capital. The woman had died at a Singapore hospital a few days later.
( With inputs from ANI )