Nirbhaya Row: Vinay Sharma Hits Head in Wall, Receives Minor Injury

New Delhi: One of the four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, Vinay Sharma, injured himself by hitting his head against a wall of his cell in Tihar Jail, officials said today.

The incident happened in jail number 3 on Sunday afternoon. He got some minor injuries and was treated inside the jail premises, they said. According to prison officials, Vinay had briefly stopped eating. “He is irritable in nature and acts different from the other three convicts.

“Vinay got hurt inside his cell after he hits his head against a wall on Sunday afternoon. While he was at it, security personnel saw him, stooped him immediately and called the doctors,” a senior jail official said. A Delhi court on Monday ordered that Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Kumar Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar (31) the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case be hanged on at 6 am on March 3.