Thread by @utkarsh_aanand

#NirbhayaCase hearing commences in the #SupremeCourt. Akshay's lawyer AP Singh gets 30 min to argue the review petition.

Judges ask Singh not to argue on facts already settled by the #SupremeCourt in its previous judgment.
Singh starts by blaming media for putting undue pressure on courts to convict his client.

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Akshay's lawyer claims Nirbhaya's friend, who was the prosecution's star witness, is a tainted witness. He took bribe and even a documentary series recorded it. Singh adds star witness can't be relied.

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Singh also cites an excerpt from former Tihar Jail officer Sunil Gupta's book in which Gupta indicted that #NirbhayaCase accused Ram Singh might have been murdered in Tihar.

Akshay's lawyer Singh says all these are new facts, warranting review of 2017 judgment.

SC observes: "We can't go by views of authors. We can't go into all this now. This will set a dangerous trend if people start writing books after the trial is over and talk about such things. There will be no end if we start entertaining all these arguments now.

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Singh claims Akshay has been condemned to death only because he is poor; invokes 'Live and let live' and then talks abourt Delhi's air and water quality. Lawyers are in splits with this argument while judges look amused.

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SG Tushar Mehta appears for #DelhiPolice, says convict Akshay is a monster and it was a crime where humanity cried. It is a fit case to hand out death penalty. This was a rarest of rare case, the law officer tells #SupremeCourt in the #NirbhayaCase.

#SupremeCourt to deliver at 1 PM its order on Akshay's review petition in #NirbhayaCase