One of the four Nirbhaya case convicts Vinay Sharmawas injured after he reportedly hit his head against the wall of his cell atTihar jail in Delhi on Thursday. All the four convicts will be hanged on March3 as per the new death warrant by Delhi court.
Ajail official while quoted by news agency ANI said that Vinay Sharma hadattempted to hurt himself by banging his head against a wall on Sunday and hadsuffered minor injuries.
Earlier this week, Vinay Sharma's lawyer had told aDelhi court that he was on a "hunger strike" and his mental statuswas not good.
The court on Monday put out a third death warrant for Vinay Sharma, along with Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta, and Mukesh Singh, the men convicted in 2012 gang-rape of a young medical student who was assaulted and tortured so brutally that she died days later.
The Delhi Court has set a new date for the hangingof the convicts after two previous dates of hanging – January 22 and February 1– came and went as the convicts filed multiple petitions to stall theexecution. On February 5, the Delhi High Court ordered that all four would havea week to exhaust all their legal remedies, including mercy petitions to thePresident, and said they cannot be hanged separately.
