NEW DELHI : Three death row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang rape case on Monday have approached International Court of Justice (ICJ) seeking a stay on execution of their death sentence.

The plea has been moved by Pawan, Vinay and Akshay.

The letter says that the “investigation is not only flawed but also unreliable which deserved justice chastisement and warrants rejection."

Earlier in the day, the top court rejected the plea of Mukesh Singh, one of the four death-row convicts in the case, seeking restoration of all his legal remedies alleging that his earlier lawyers misled him.

A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and MR Shah held Singh's plea as not maintainable saying that the review petition and the curative petition have both been dismissed in the case.

The convict had sought quashing of all orders passed by courts and the rejection of his mercy petition by the President since the day his curative petition was dismissed by the apex court on the ground that the earlier lawyer Vrinda Grover had misled him.

The Patiala house court on 5 March had issued fresh death warrants against the four death row convicts with 20 March, 5.30 am, as the date for the execution of the convicts — Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Singh (31).

In December 2012, a 23-year-old woman was brutally assaulted and raped by six people in a moving bus in south Delhi, an incident which prompted nationwide protests. She succumbed to her injuries on 29 December at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.

PTI contributed to this story.

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