16 Dec rape: Guilty shifted

Two convicts in the 16 December gang-rape were shifted to convict jail on Saturday, a police officer said. Mukesh, 26, and Akshay Thakur, 28, have been shifted to jail number five (convict jail), said an officer of Tihar jail.

They were earlier lodged in jail number 4 before being convicted and sentenced to death by a court Friday. The other two, Pawan Gupta, 19 and Vinay Sharma, 20, have been lodged in jail number 7, a jail for inmates aged below 21. Friday, all the four convicts returned from court and donned white kurta pyjamas. 

They sought Tihar’s officers help in appealing to a higher court. ‘The convicts told us they wanted our help for appealing in a higher court,’ an officer said.