The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear the petition of a death row convict in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, seeking the review of the 2017 judgement of the SC upholding his death penalty. A bench will heart he review plea filed by Akshay Kumar Singh, who through his lawyer AP Singh,sought clemency, citing the depleting air quality and water pollution in the city, which has negatively impacted the life span of the citizens.

The bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde, Justice R Banumathi andJustice Ashok Bhushan will hear the petition 2 pm and the court will also hearthe application of Nirbhaya's mother in protest against the review petition.The petition seeking to be hanged soon will be heard in the Patiala House Courtat 2 pm on Wednesday. At the same time, after the order of the apex court, thepetition seeking the hanging of the culprits soon will be heard in the PatialaHouse Court at 2 pm on Wednesday.

Earlier, the court had said that the plea of ​​Akshay willbe reconsidered in the Supreme Court on December 17 and the verdict on it isawaited. After that, the hearing will be held on December 18. Nirbhaya'sparents, who had filed the petition during the hearing, will also be present inthe courtroom.

The top court had already dismissed the review pleas ofthree other convicts also on death row. They are Mukesh (30), Pawan Gupta (23)and Vinay Sharma (24). The court found no merit in conducting the review andupheld the capital punishment given by the trial court and confirmed by theDelhi High Court in the case. Ram Singh, another accused in the case, allegedlycommitted suicide in the jail. A juvenile accused, convicted by a juvenilejustice board, was released from a reformation home after serving a three-yearterm.

The 23-year-old paramedic student was gangraped and brutallyassaulted on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012, inside a movingbus. Later, she was thrown at an isolated place by the accused and died onDecember 29, 2012. The convicts, except Akshay, can avail legal remedy byfiling curative pleas in the top court against their conviction and deathpenalty. After exhausting the legal channel, the convicts can send mercy pleato the President. If the President dismisses the mercy pleas of the accused,then the authorities would need death warrants from a local court to carry outexecutions.