On Friday, Mukesh Singh, 1 of the 4 death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape & murder case, moved a petition in the Apex Court seeking restoration of all his legal remedies, claiming that his attorneys had misled him.
The petition, filed through advocate M.L.Sharma, sought a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into alleged “criminal conspiracy” & “fraud” hatched by the Centre, Delhi Govt. and Lawyer 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) & Akshay Kumar Singh (31).
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“Petitioner (Mukesh) is victim of criminal conspiracy & fraud played & hatched jointly by the R-1 (Ministry of Home Affairs), R-2 (Delhi government) & R-3 (Vrinda Grover) & other advocate who appeared in the session court, High Court & 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 court has directed her to secured various signed documents from him to file various petitions, including curative petition, on his behalf in the high court & the Supreme Court in his death sentence case,” the petition said.
‘Criminal conspiracy’
The plea disputed that the respondents “knowingly & deliberately” for vested & political interests hatched a joint criminal conspiracy against Mukesh Singh & visited Tihar Jail & met the petitioner asking him to sign various documents.
The appeal said that they asked him to sign vakalatnama saying that the Session Court has issued order to get various documents signed by him to file curative plea for him in all Courts.
The plea said that “Being pressurised/feared due to so-called session court order, the petitioner signed various sets of vakalatnama for her & signed other papers for her. Recently the petitioner came to know that there was no such session court order”.
The plea alleged the limitation period to file a curative plea was 3 years from the date of dismissal of the review petition & sought to “restore” the rights available to him & allow him to file curative & mercy appeals till July 2021.
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