Nirbhaya case: Convict Pawan's mercy plea rejected

President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday rejected the mercy petition of Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the four convicts facing the gallows in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. Pawan Gupta, one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case, had on Monday filed mercy plea before the President of India, hours after the Supreme Court dismissed his curative petition.