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Convicts challenge sentence in robbery case

AGE CORRESPONDENT
Published : May 30, 2016, 1:14 am IST
Updated : May 30, 2016, 1:14 am IST

Three of the four death row convicts in the December 16 gangrape and murder case have moved the Delhi high court challenging the 10-year jail term awarded to them by a trial court in a robbery case.

Three of the four death row convicts in the December 16 gangrape and murder case have moved the Delhi high court challenging the 10-year jail term awarded to them by a trial court in a robbery case.

Akshay Kumar Singh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma, who were convicted for dacoity and dishonestly receiving stolen property, have alleged that the trial court’s order was “bad in law” and “against the principle of natural justice”. Besides the trio, the trial court on September 2 last year had also awarded 10 year imprisonment to convict Mukesh, saying they “do not deserve any leniency”.

It had also imposed a fine of Rs 1.01 lakh each on the four convicts, who are currently lodged in Tihar jail.

The convicts, in their appeal filed through advocate A.P. Singh, have sought setting aside of the trial court’s decision, saying the judgment did not pay “heed towards facts produced by the accused persons during the trial of the case”.

The plea stated that the prosecution has failed to prove its case and had not placed any material evidence, which could point to their guilt. “Trial court had passed order (conviction and sentence) without applying its judicial mind and without taking into consideration the facts and documents placed by the convicts on record and has wrongly relied upon the version of the complainant,” the convicts have said in their appeal.

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