<p>Nirbhaya gang rape and murder convict Akshay Singh has filed a second mercy petition before President Ram Nath Kovind just three days before his scheduled hanging on March 20.</p>.<p>Officials at Tihar Jail, where the hanging is scheduled to take place, said Kumar filed the petition addressed to the President on Tuesday evening.</p>.<p>"This plea will also be forwarded to the Ministry of Home Affairs through the Delhi government," they said.</p>.<p>However, the petition will not delay the execution, according to a senior jail official.</p>.<p>Earlier, the first petition of Kumar was quashed by the President.</p>.<p>On March 5 this year, a trial court had issued fresh warrants with March 20, 5.30 am, as the date for the execution of the four convicts in the case -- Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31).</p>.<p>This is the fourth death warrant against the convicts as the earlier three warrants were deferred pending the exhaustion of legal remedies by the convicts.</p>.<p>After the fresh death warrant was issued, the Tihar Jail authorities wrote to their counterparts in Uttar Pradesh requesting for the service of hangman Pawan Jallad, a senior jail official said.</p>.<p>Pawan Jallad, a hangman from Meerut, reached the Tihar Jail on Tuesday.</p>.<p>A 23-year-old physiotherapy intern, who came to be known as "Nirbhaya" (the fearless), was gang-raped and savagely assaulted in a moving bus in south Delhi on December 16, 2012. She died after a fortnight.</p>.<p>Six people, including the four convicts and a juvenile, were named as accused.</p>.<p>Ram Singh, the sixth accused, allegedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail days after the trial began in the case. </p>
<p>Nirbhaya gang rape and murder convict Akshay Singh has filed a second mercy petition before President Ram Nath Kovind just three days before his scheduled hanging on March 20.</p>.<p>Officials at Tihar Jail, where the hanging is scheduled to take place, said Kumar filed the petition addressed to the President on Tuesday evening.</p>.<p>"This plea will also be forwarded to the Ministry of Home Affairs through the Delhi government," they said.</p>.<p>However, the petition will not delay the execution, according to a senior jail official.</p>.<p>Earlier, the first petition of Kumar was quashed by the President.</p>.<p>On March 5 this year, a trial court had issued fresh warrants with March 20, 5.30 am, as the date for the execution of the four convicts in the case -- Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31).</p>.<p>This is the fourth death warrant against the convicts as the earlier three warrants were deferred pending the exhaustion of legal remedies by the convicts.</p>.<p>After the fresh death warrant was issued, the Tihar Jail authorities wrote to their counterparts in Uttar Pradesh requesting for the service of hangman Pawan Jallad, a senior jail official said.</p>.<p>Pawan Jallad, a hangman from Meerut, reached the Tihar Jail on Tuesday.</p>.<p>A 23-year-old physiotherapy intern, who came to be known as "Nirbhaya" (the fearless), was gang-raped and savagely assaulted in a moving bus in south Delhi on December 16, 2012. She died after a fortnight.</p>.<p>Six people, including the four convicts and a juvenile, were named as accused.</p>.<p>Ram Singh, the sixth accused, allegedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail days after the trial began in the case. </p>