They deserve only death: Nirbhaya’s mom
Parents Say Families Must Provide Adequate Support To Survivors In Getting Justice
Somreet.Bhattacharya@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:10.07.2018
It has taken six years for the judicial system to endorse the desire of Asha Devi and Badrinath Singh to see the men who raped their daughter, Nirbhaya, sentenced to death. “We want to see the end of it all now,” said Devi on Monday.
“We are happy that the judges heard the arguments and then decided to uphold the death penalty,” said Devi outside the courtroom where a bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice R Banumathi and Justice Ashok Bhushan rejected the pleas of three of the men against the death sentence handed down to them by the trial court and upheld by Delhi high court. “The type of crime they committed does not require anything less than death, ”she said.
The father had stronger words. “How can this be called a punishment?” Singh said. “How can a brutal rape and murder of a girl whose body was horribly mutilated ever be justified? We all know how the system works. These men will manage to come out of the prison on some excuse.”
Having suffered for so many years, Nirbhaya’s parents have also been asking all along for stricter laws so that rape-cum-murder trials can be sped up in order to provide closure and relief from trauma to the parents. Devi said that she has learned a lot about the way the courts function and is now helping victims of sexual assault. “My biggest advice to the family members of a sexual assault survivor is to give them full support,” she said. “Don’t question them. Instead help them to get a police case registered. Many families choose to stay quiet due to shame, and this only emboldens the rapists.”
The family shared its anxieties about another rapist, a juvenile, who had been released after three years in a correction centre. “He is free and roaming among us. I don’t know if the time in the correction home has changed him and we still have our fears,” Devi said.
Grandpa wants to see convicts hanged
The grandfather of Nirbhaya on Monday lauded the Supreme Court for upholding the death verdict of the four gang rape and murder convicts in the case and said his only wish was to see them hanged before he died.
“It is a matter of satisfaction that the Supreme Court has upheld capital punishment for them. There should be speedy trials to punish such people,” Lalji Singh, a resident of Medaura Kalan village in Ballia, told TOI. “I will die in peace if they are executed in my lifetime,” he added. TNN
Parents Say Families Must Provide Adequate Support To Survivors In Getting Justice
Somreet.Bhattacharya@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:10.07.2018
It has taken six years for the judicial system to endorse the desire of Asha Devi and Badrinath Singh to see the men who raped their daughter, Nirbhaya, sentenced to death. “We want to see the end of it all now,” said Devi on Monday.
“We are happy that the judges heard the arguments and then decided to uphold the death penalty,” said Devi outside the courtroom where a bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice R Banumathi and Justice Ashok Bhushan rejected the pleas of three of the men against the death sentence handed down to them by the trial court and upheld by Delhi high court. “The type of crime they committed does not require anything less than death, ”she said.
The father had stronger words. “How can this be called a punishment?” Singh said. “How can a brutal rape and murder of a girl whose body was horribly mutilated ever be justified? We all know how the system works. These men will manage to come out of the prison on some excuse.”
Having suffered for so many years, Nirbhaya’s parents have also been asking all along for stricter laws so that rape-cum-murder trials can be sped up in order to provide closure and relief from trauma to the parents. Devi said that she has learned a lot about the way the courts function and is now helping victims of sexual assault. “My biggest advice to the family members of a sexual assault survivor is to give them full support,” she said. “Don’t question them. Instead help them to get a police case registered. Many families choose to stay quiet due to shame, and this only emboldens the rapists.”
The family shared its anxieties about another rapist, a juvenile, who had been released after three years in a correction centre. “He is free and roaming among us. I don’t know if the time in the correction home has changed him and we still have our fears,” Devi said.
Grandpa wants to see convicts hanged
The grandfather of Nirbhaya on Monday lauded the Supreme Court for upholding the death verdict of the four gang rape and murder convicts in the case and said his only wish was to see them hanged before he died.
“It is a matter of satisfaction that the Supreme Court has upheld capital punishment for them. There should be speedy trials to punish such people,” Lalji Singh, a resident of Medaura Kalan village in Ballia, told TOI. “I will die in peace if they are executed in my lifetime,” he added. TNN
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