A bench of Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna will hear Mukesh Kumar’s plea at 12.30 pm on Tuesday.
Illustration by Mir Suhail. (News18.com)
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday the petition of death row convict Mukesh Kumar in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case challenging the dismissal of his mercy petition by President Ram Nath Kovind.
A bench of Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna will hear the plea at 12.30 pm on Tuesday.
The mercy plea of the 32-year-old was dismissed by Kovind on January 17.
Get the best of News18 delivered to your inbox – subscribe to News18 Daybreak. Follow News18.com on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Telegram, TikTok and on YouTube, and stay in the know with what’s happening in the world around you – in real time.
Source: News18