New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: After moving an application in a Delhi court for ‘high-level treatment’, one of the four Nirbhaya convicts, Vinay Sharma, has now moved the Election Commission of India to challenge the rejection of his mercy plea by Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia.
Vinay, through his advocate AP Singh, told the poll body that the Model Code of Conduct was in place in Delhi when his plea for grant of mercy was rejected by Minister Manish Sisodia, which made him "ineligible" to quash it.
Vinay further argued that digital signatures of Sisodia were needed on his plea, but a WhatsApp screenshot was sent out instead to reject the petition. The mercy petition is forwarded by the Delhi government to the Lt Governor, and finally to the President of India who rejects or accepts it.
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Vinay, who suffered minor injuries after banging his head on his cell wall in Tihar Jail, yesterday approached a Delhi court seeking better treatment for his claimed mental illness, schizophrenia and head and arm injuries.
Acting on the plea filed by death-row convict Vinay Sharma, the court sought response from Tihar Jail authorities and posted the matter for February 22 for consideration.
According to prison officials, Sharma injured himself by banging his head on his cell wall in Tihar Jail. The incident happened in jail number 3 on Sunday afternoon, they said, adding that he got some minor injuries and was treated inside the prison premises.
During the hearing, the prosecution opposed the plea saying it was not maintainable. Counsel for Sharma told the court that he was refusing to recognise people, including his mother.
The plea claimed that when Sharma's counsel visited him in the prison on the request of his family members, he found that he had sustained a grievous head injury, fracture in his right arm with plaster and was suffering from "insanity", "mental illness" and "schizophrenia".
Vinay has exhausted all his legal remedies following confirmation of capital punishment to him along with three other convicts, who are scheduled to be hanged on March 3. A convict, Pawan, has not yet availed of the remedy of either curative or mercy petition.
(With IANS Inputs)