New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday the petition of death row convict Mukesh Kumar in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case challenging the dismissal of his mercy petition by President Ram Nath Kovind.
A bench of Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna will hear the plea at 12.30 pm on Tuesday.
The mercy plea of the 32-year-old was dismissed by Kovind on January 17.