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"India Won't Tolerate Five Deaths To Avenge One": Nirbhaya Convicts' Lawyer To Media

Questioning Delhi High Court's 'haste' in the issue, Singh said: "Why only in this case there is a hurry? Justice hurried is justice buried."

Update: 2020-02-03 08:07 GMT
"India Wont Tolerate Five Deaths To Avenge One": Nirbhaya Convicts Lawyer To Media

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The lawyer representing the four Nirbhaya convicts has said that India will not tolerate five "murders" to avenge one. His statement came as the Delhi High Court reserved its order on a lower court's endless suspension of the perpetrators' death sentence.

"The convicts have been in jail for the past seven years. There are four mothers (those of the convicts) on one side and one mother (victim's) on the other. India will not tolerate five deaths to avenge one (the victim)," ANI quoted Advocate AP Singh as saying.

Singh further claimed that a "media trial, political trial, trial with public sentiments" was taking place because of the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections. He added that it would be an "injustice" if they are hanged in a hurry. 

 
 
 

Questioning Delhi High Court's 'haste' in the issue, Singh said: "Why only, in this case, there is a hurry? Justice hurried is justice buried." He further said that the convicts should not be made to bear the brunt of ambiguity in the law as they belong to poor, rural and Dalit families.

"The Centre was not a party to the case till 2019, but when execution is stayed sine die, petitions are filed, and the case is heard on Saturday and Sunday. On social media, people are writing against my family and me. Why? Because I am giving importance to the Constitution of India?" Singh said.

"A Red Fort bomb blast convicts Arif alias Ashfaq is alive in hail even though all his legal remedies have been exhausted. His special leave petition (SLP), review, curative and mercy petitions have been rejected. But Delhi government and Tihar Jail are not giving notice for his execution," he added.

Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi has been seeking quick action against the perpetrators for years now. She had earlier accused Singh of bragging to her in open court that "the hanging will never happen".  

Also Read: 'How Dare She': Nirbhaya's Mother Lashes Out At Indira Jaising's Remarks On Forgiving Convicts

 

 

 
 
 
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Nirbhaya case: HC order on Wednesday on Centre's plea against stay on convicts' hanging

The Centre and the Delhi government has challenged the trial court's January 31 order staying "till further orders" the execution of all the four convicts in the case -- Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Kumar Sharma (26) and Akshay...

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Nirbhaya case: Delhi HC to pass order on Centre's plea challenging stay on convicts' execution on Feb 5
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court will on Wednesday pronounce order on the Centre's plea challenging stay on execution of four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.

Justice Suresh Kumar Kait had on February 2 reserved order on the Centre's plea after holding special hearings on Saturday and Sunday.
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The Centre and the Delhi government challenged the trial court's January 31 order staying "till further orders" the execution of all the four convicts in the case -- Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Kumar Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar (31), who are lodged in Tihar Jail.

Earlier in the day, the parents of the victim urged the court to expeditiously decide the Centre's plea and were assured by the judge that the order would be passed at the earliest.
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The trial court on January 7, had issued black warrants for the execution of all the four convicts in Tihar jail at 7 AM on January 22. However, they could not be hanged due to pendency of mercy petition of one of them.

Later, on January 17, the trial court fixed February 1, 6 AM as the hanging date and time.
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On January 31, the trial court again stayed the execution as the counsel for three convicts -- Pawan, Vinay and Akshay -- urged it to adjourn the matter "sine die" saying their legal remedies were yet to be exhausted.

While the mercy pleas of Mukesh and Vinay have been rejected by the President, Pawan has not yet filed it. Akshay's mercy plea was filed on February 1 and is pending.
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The Centre and Delhi government approached the high court on February 1, challenging the trial court's order staying the execution.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing them, had contended that it was a deliberate and calculated design of the convicts to "frustrate mandate of law" by getting their execution delayed and they were not entitled to any more time.

The counsel for the convicts opposed the plea saying it was not maintainable and that the Centre was never a party in the case proceedings before the trial court and while the government was accusing the convict of delay, it has woken up only now.

Nirbhaya, 23-year-old paramedic student, was raped and brutally assaulted on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 inside a moving bus in south Delhi by six persons, before being thrown out on the road.

She died on December 29, 2012 in Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital.

One of the six accused in the case, Ram Singh, allegedly committed suicide in the Tihar Jail.

A juvenile, who was among the accused, was convicted by a juvenile justice board and was released from a reformation home after serving a three-year term.

The top court, in its 2017 verdict, had upheld the capital punishment awarded to the convicts by the Delhi High Court and the trial court.
 
 

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