A curative petition is the last judicial retreat accessible for redressal of grievances. It is to be decided by the judges in-chamber.
On the other hand, mercy petition is filed before the President who has the power to convert it to life imprisonment.
The case is pertained to the gang-rape of a woman by six persons on a moving bus in the National Capital Region on the cold night of December 16, 2012.
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However, the victim was later given the name Nirbhaya, who died at a hospital in Singapore, where she had been airlifted to undergo medical treatment.
Convict Vinay Sharma's lawyer AP Singh has said a curative petition in the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the death warrant. All four convicts of the Nirbhaya's gang-rape case have already been sentenced to hang till death on January 22 at 7 am in the Tihar jail.
