<p>A Delhi court on Thursday asked Tihar jail authorities to respond to a plea by one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, seeking better treatment for "mental illness, schizophrenia, head and arm injuries".</p>.<p>Additional Session Judge Dharmender Rana directed the prison authorities to file its reply on the plea by Vinay Kumar Sharma on Saturday.</p>.<p>According to prison officials, Sharma injured himself by banging his head on his cell wall in Tihar Jail.</p>.<p>The incident occurred in jail number 3 on Sunday afternoon, they said, adding that he received some minor injuries and was treated inside the prison premises.</p>.<p>During the hearing, the prosecution opposed the plea saying it was not maintainable.</p>.<p>Counsel for Sharma told the court that he was refusing to recognise people, including his mother.</p>.<p>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".</p>.<p>Sharma could not identify his counsel and his mother in jail, it said.</p>.<p>The petition further claimed that he was had "decreased sleep" for a long time and was referred to a senior psychiatrist in view of drug dependence.</p>.<p>The court had on February 17 issued fresh death warrants for March 3 at 6 am, against the four death row convicts Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay (26) and Akshay Kumar (31) in the case.</p>.<p>This is the third time that death warrants have been issued against them.</p>
<p>A Delhi court on Thursday asked Tihar jail authorities to respond to a plea by one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, seeking better treatment for "mental illness, schizophrenia, head and arm injuries".</p>.<p>Additional Session Judge Dharmender Rana directed the prison authorities to file its reply on the plea by Vinay Kumar Sharma on Saturday.</p>.<p>According to prison officials, Sharma injured himself by banging his head on his cell wall in Tihar Jail.</p>.<p>The incident occurred in jail number 3 on Sunday afternoon, they said, adding that he received some minor injuries and was treated inside the prison premises.</p>.<p>During the hearing, the prosecution opposed the plea saying it was not maintainable.</p>.<p>Counsel for Sharma told the court that he was refusing to recognise people, including his mother.</p>.<p>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".</p>.<p>Sharma could not identify his counsel and his mother in jail, it said.</p>.<p>The petition further claimed that he was had "decreased sleep" for a long time and was referred to a senior psychiatrist in view of drug dependence.</p>.<p>The court had on February 17 issued fresh death warrants for March 3 at 6 am, against the four death row convicts Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay (26) and Akshay Kumar (31) in the case.</p>.<p>This is the third time that death warrants have been issued against them.</p>
