Page 34 - 31JAN2020E3

Hanging hief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bob-

de had said justice can never be instant
and loses its character when it becomes
revenge. Now after exhausting almost all
Nirbhaya’s C legal remedies in the seven-year old trial
in the December 2012 gruesome Delhi gang rape and
murder case, the case gets a closure with execution
fixed for January 22.
Ending the 7-year wait for justice, a Delhi court has
rapists issued death warrants against all the four convicts
in the 2012 Nirbhaya rape and murder case. Akshay
Thakur Singh, Mukesh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Shar-
ma, who were found guilty in the rape and murder
of a Delhi medical student, will be hanged at 7 am on
isn’t January 22.
During the hearing, the prosecution said that there
was no application pending before any court or the
President right now by any of the convicts and the
enough Supreme Court dismissed the review petitions of all
the convicts as well.
Now days before a court issued the death warrants
against all four convicts in 2012 Delhi gang-rape case,
one of the convicts has filed a curative petition in the
Supreme Court. Convict Vinay Sharma’s lawyer AP
Justice delivered in December 2012 gang rape case but Singh said a curative petition in the Supreme Court
seeking a stay on the death penalty.
final vindication will only be when all girls feel safe, In the petition, the lawyer said the Supreme Court
should have considered that Vinay was only 19 years
writes tehelka bureau
old at the time of the incident. Young age and socio-

34