Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today hit back at claims that his AAP government was at fault for delays in the execution of the four Nirbhaya convicts.
New Delhi: Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday said it was a result of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi that the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case couldn’t be hanged in a period bound way after their survey appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court in July a year ago.
“For what reason was the jail office, which goes under the AAP government, dozing after the rejection of survey request in July 2018? For what reason did the administration give Rs 10,000 and a sewing pack to the adolescent attacker when he was discharged? Didn’t they see tears of Nirbhaya’s mom?” she was cited by news office ANI as saying.
“I need to tell the Aam Aadmi Party that after the dismissal of the audit request, as a result of you the convicts couldn’t be hanged in time. Such gatherings ought to be disgraced this isn’t just my gathering’s perspective yet additionally of each well behaved resident of the nation,” she included.
Vinay Sharma, Mukesh Singh, Akshay Kumar Singh and Pawan Gupta were to be hanged at Delhi’s Tihar Jail on January 22, the preliminary court judge had proclaimed a week ago, marking an execution order seven years after a youthful therapeutic understudy was assaulted on a moving transport, tormented and murdered.
The Delhi government, be that as it may, told the High Court on Tuesday that the hanging would need to be delayed as Mukesh Singh showed recorded a leniency appeal with the President. As indicated by the guidelines, the administration counsel stated, the convicts would need to be allowed a 14-day notice regardless of whether their leniency requests were dismissed. On Thursday, the Tihar prison requested a crisp date for the execution.
Today, after the benevolence request of Mukesh Singh was dismissed by the President, new execution orders were given for the convicts, who will currently be executed at 6 am on February.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today hit back at charges that his AAP government was to be faulted for delays in the execution of the four Nirbhaya convicts. Mr Kejriwal said his administration “scarcely has any job in it (the execution)” and that whatever desk work must be rounded out by the AAP was “completed…within hours”.
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