Nirbhaya case: No relief for convict Vinay, Court says he wants to be falsely diagnosed mentally ill

A plea filed by one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case seeking treatment for 'insanity' was on Saturday dismissed by a Delhi court which said that he is "malingering" and "desires himself to be falsely diagnosed mentally ill".

Additional Session Judge Dharmender Rana rejected the plea by Vinay Kumar Sharma saying there no are objective signs of psychological distress and he did not find any occasion to refer the convict to IHBAS (Institute of Human Behaviour & Allied Sciences) or any other hospital at this stage, as sought in the plea.

The plea had claimed that Sharma had sustained grievous head injury and fracture in his right arm, and was suffering from "insanity", "mental illness" and "schizophrenia".

The court said that "general anxiety and depression in case of a death row convict is obvious," as it noted that adequate medical treatment and psychological help has been provided to the condemned convict.

"The jail superintendent is once ...