<span style="color: #222222;">The Supreme Court will hear on December 17 the plea filed by one of the four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape-and-murder case seeking review of its 2017 judgement awarding him the death penalty.<br />'' <br />'' A three-judge bench will hear the plea filed by convict Akshay Kumar Singh.<br />'' <br />'' The apex court had on July 9 last year dismissed the review pleas filed by the three other convicts — Mukesh (30), Pawan Gupta (23) and Vinay Sharma (24) — in the case saying no grounds have been made out by them for review of the 2017 verdict.<br />'' <br />'' A 23-year-old paramedic student, who came to be known as Nirbhaya, was gang-raped on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 inside a running bus in south Delhi by six persons and severely assaulted before being thrown out on the road.<br />'' <br />''<br />''She succumbed to injuries on December 29 in Singapore.</span><br />