Hindustan Times : Feb 28, 2020, 04:13 PM
New Delhi: Death row convict Pawan Kumar Gupta has filed a curative petition before the Supreme Court four days before his scheduled execution along with three others in the Delhi gang rape and murder case. Gupta’s curative petition pleads his death sentence be commuted to life imprisonment.Pawan Gupta is the only one among the four convicts to have not exhausted all their legal remedies. Despite a seven -day deadline set by Delhi High Court for him to avail his legal options, Gupta hadn’t filed either a curative petition or a mercy petition so far.Pawan Gupta’s counsel had argued that he wasn’t aware of the seven days time frame.