Appearing for convicts Akshay Thakur and Vinay Sharma, counsel A P Singh told this to the bench of Justices Reva Khetrapal and Pratibha Rani who are hearing their appeal against the trial court's conviction and sentence.
The trial court had ordered their hanging in the offence of murder and gangrape of the 23-year-old paramedic.
"In the FIR, there was no description of present two convicts (Akshay and Vinay) and also of the bus in which the alleged incident happened on the night of December 16, 2012. As per the prosecution, there was six men in the alleged bus when the girl was gangraped by them.
Initially, the police had arrested six persons, including the juvenile. However, main accused Ram Singh was found hanging in his cell at Tihar, so the proceedings against him stood abetted.
The juvenile was handed three years at the correction home prescribed under the Juvenile Justice Act. The adult accused Akshay, Vinay, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh were sentenced to death by a trial court in September.