The Supreme Court has postponed heraing a review plea filed by one of the four men convicted in the 2012 Delhi Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case. The hearing, which was to take place today, will now take place tomorrow after CJI SA Bobde who was on the bench hearing the case recused himself.
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The petition has been filed by Akshay Kumar who is the lone Nirbhaya convict not to have filed a review plea until now. The Supreme Court had last year rejected the review petitions filed by the three other convicts -- Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Singh. All the four men were convicted for the 2012 rape and murder a 23-year-old woman who came to be called Nirbhaya. All have been sentenced to die.