New Delhi, Dec 13 (UNI) Mother of the victim of the December 16, 2012, gang-rape and murder case on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to be impleaded as a party in the review petition filed by one of the four death row convicts, Akshay Kumar Singh, scheduled for hearing on December 17, Tuesday.
A bench, headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde, allowed her plea.
Akshay Kumar Singh, one of the convicts in the brutal crime, had recently filed a review petition challenging the death penalty awarded to him in the case.
Singh has sought a review in the case and sought modification of the order of the top court.
"My client is seeking review and he has filed a review petition thereby before the Supreme Court," said his counsel A P Singh.
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