New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Wednesday said all the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang- rape and murder case have to be executed together, not separately, and dismissed the Centreu2019s plea against the trial courtu2019s order staying the execution of their death sentence. The Centre and the Delhi government immediately moved the Supreme Court challenging the HCu2019s order.
The trial court had on January 31 stayed u201c till further ordersu201d execution of the four convicts u2014 Mukesh Kumar Singh, 32, Pawan Gupta, 25, Vinay Kumar Sharma, 26, and Akshay Kumar, 31, lodged in Tihar jail.
Justice Suresh Kumar Kait directed the convicts to exhaust within seven days all the legal remedies after which the authorities should act as per law. u201c It cannot be disputed that the convicts have frustrated the process by using delaying tactics,u201d it added 3rd mercy plea rejected While President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday rejected the mercy plea of Akshay, those of Mukesh and Vinay had been rejected earlier, and Pawan has not yet filed it.
The HC also criticised the authorities for the delay in seeking death warrants for the convicts.
The Delhi government had moved the court for issuance of black warrants, two years after the supreme court in 2017 had dismissed the review petition against the confirmation of death penalty.
u201c All the authorities concerned were sleepingu201d and waited till December 2019 u201c for reasons best known to themu201d to seek issuance of death warrants, it said.
Agencies u2018 I am satisfied but I will be happy only when they are hanged. The court has given them a weeku2019s time, we will wait till then... The government will think how early could they be hangedu2019 Asha Devi, Nirbhayau2019s mother Convicts Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur and Pawan Gupta. file pic Govt rushes to SC after HC gives convicts 7 days for legal remedies Centreu2019s plea against stay on execution of Nirbhayau2019s rapists rejected u2018 Enough with security lollypop, women want equality, jobs toou2019 Delhi assembly polls New Delhi: While political parties are sweating it out to woo the electorate ahead of the Delhi Assembly polls, women voters in the national capital feel manifestos should offer more to them than limiting their demands to safety issues.
Women of different age groups and from varied demographics feel that political parties assume that they should talk to women voters only about their security and prevention of sexual crimes, though they would prefer to be treated simply as voters irrespective of their gender.
Rani Devi, a 52- year- old house help, said, u201c Everybody needs security but what about ground issues.
At least we get free travel in buses now, what will we do with the promises of security? Give us what everybody else is entitled tou201d. Rekha Gautam, 20, a college student, is unimpressed that whenever any candidate meets women to seek votes, they give the example of Nirbhaya. u201c Itu2019s time political parties start seeing women voters as more mature individuals rather than giving the security lollypop to us,u201d she said.
Healthcare professional Nishtha Tomar, a Rajouri Garden resident, said while there is talk of gender equality in households and workplaces, there is no such equality among voters.
College student Nisha Mishra wants the parties addressing issues like menstrual health.
Agencies u2018 Whenever there are elections, they [ parties] start blowing the u2018 womenu2019s securityu2019 trumpet. Are we part of the vote bank only for security which they miserably fail to provide? Do we not need water or electricity or jobs? u2019 Shyna Kalra, IT professional
