Understood that convicts won’t be executed on Jan 22: Nirbhaya’s mother

Jan 16, 2020

New Delhi, Jan 16 (ANI): Nirbhaya’s mother, Asha Devi said that it is clear convicts of 2012 gang rape case won’t be executed on January 22. She said, “Whatever happened in court today, both the sides argued, but no decision has been taken yet. But we have understood that they (convicts) won’t be executed on January 22.” The convicts’ lawyer in 2012 gang rape case, AP Singh said that court has direction Tihar Jail authorities to provide documents for further mercy and curative petition. He said, “Today the matter was heard on the basis of the application moved to receive all documents since 2012 up to 2020 on behalf of Pawan Kumar Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Kumar Singh from jail records. We will proceed further mercy and curative petition. Court allowed our petition and directed the jail authority to provide the same documents in two days.” On January 16, Delhi Government rejected the mercy plea of one of the convict in 2012 Delhi gang-rape case, Mukesh Singh.