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The mercy plea that has been filed by Vinay Sharma who is one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case, has been rejected by the President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday.

The mercy plea that has been filed by Vinay Sharma has been put before the President on Wednesday where in the mercy plea was to urge the President to listen to his side of the story, as said by his lawyer.

The curative petition of Vinay Sharma has also been rejected by the Supreme Court

The lawyer AP Singh who represents Vinay Sharma has said that the death row convict has stated that he already feels dead several times in the prison during the period when his mercy plea has been pending of judicial proceedings.

The hanging of the all the four convicts has been postponed by the Supreme Court on Friday as the mercy plea that had been filed by one of the four convicts Vinay Sharma and which has been put before the President urging him to listen to his side of the story, has been pending.

The court had said that according to the Delhi Prison Rules of the year 2018, if an appeal and application is made by one of the convicts then the execution sentence for all the convicts shall be postponed as well.

Prior to the decision taken by the Court on Friday, the black warrants have been issued by the trial court on all the convicts on January 17 and it had been decided that the convicts would be hung at the Tihar jail on 1st of February at 6 in the morning.

The death row convicts were of the Nirbhaya case that had taken place in the year 2012 on December 16 which has shook the nation with raging anger. The case is about a 23- year- old woman who had been gang- raped and assaulted in a moving bus in the night of December 16. She has died of injuries a fortnight later after she has struggled for life at a Singapore hospital.

By Shrithika Kushangi