Nirbhaya case: Tihar asks convicts to give date for last meet with kin
TNN | Jan 15, 2020, 04.43 AM IST
NEW DELHI: Tihar Jail authorities asked the Nirbhaya rapists to inform when they would like to meet their family members for the last time. Jail sources said that the meeting would be disallowed after January 20, two days before the hanging.
During the last meeting, the four death row convicts — Mukesh Kumar, Akshay Singh, Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta — would be allowed to meet the families for a longer time during which they would prepare a will in the presence of a jail superintendent. The jail officials will also calculate the amount of wage each of them had earned from the work they had done during the stay at the jail, which would be handed over to the family. Singh earned the maximum of Rs 69,000 during his stay, followed by Sharma (Rs 39,000) and Gupta (Rs 29,000). Kumar had refused to do any physical labour.
A senior jail official said that after the curative petitions of two of the convicts were dismissed by the Supreme Court, Sharma’s father went to meet him. Sharma broke down several times during the conversation with his father.
“We are allowing them the usual weekly meetings, while Kumar, Sharma and Gupta’s parents met them, Singh’s family had last met him in November,” said an official.
For the time being the authorities are allowing the families to meet the convicts for half an hour as per the jail manual. “Once they agree on the date of the last meeting, we might allow them a little more time during which more than two members of the family can meet them. However, all of them will not be allowed to meet their families at the same time,” said an official.
Tihar sources said that the convicts were currently kept in isolation wards and under the observation of doctors. They were not allowed to access any news source — newspaper or television. However, they were being informed about the relevant developments by the wardens and their lawyers. Their diet, too, had been controlled since Monday.
In the past few days, Sharma — with a tendency to grow violent — had at least half a dozen instances of misconduct, during which he refused to eat or cooperate with the jail staffers. The others, however, stayed calm.
Jail sources said that Sharma had been punished 11 times during his stay at Tihar, while Gupta was punished eight times, Kumar was hauled up thrice and Singh just once.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
TNN | Jan 15, 2020, 04.43 AM IST
NEW DELHI: Tihar Jail authorities asked the Nirbhaya rapists to inform when they would like to meet their family members for the last time. Jail sources said that the meeting would be disallowed after January 20, two days before the hanging.
During the last meeting, the four death row convicts — Mukesh Kumar, Akshay Singh, Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta — would be allowed to meet the families for a longer time during which they would prepare a will in the presence of a jail superintendent. The jail officials will also calculate the amount of wage each of them had earned from the work they had done during the stay at the jail, which would be handed over to the family. Singh earned the maximum of Rs 69,000 during his stay, followed by Sharma (Rs 39,000) and Gupta (Rs 29,000). Kumar had refused to do any physical labour.
A senior jail official said that after the curative petitions of two of the convicts were dismissed by the Supreme Court, Sharma’s father went to meet him. Sharma broke down several times during the conversation with his father.
“We are allowing them the usual weekly meetings, while Kumar, Sharma and Gupta’s parents met them, Singh’s family had last met him in November,” said an official.
For the time being the authorities are allowing the families to meet the convicts for half an hour as per the jail manual. “Once they agree on the date of the last meeting, we might allow them a little more time during which more than two members of the family can meet them. However, all of them will not be allowed to meet their families at the same time,” said an official.
Tihar sources said that the convicts were currently kept in isolation wards and under the observation of doctors. They were not allowed to access any news source — newspaper or television. However, they were being informed about the relevant developments by the wardens and their lawyers. Their diet, too, had been controlled since Monday.
In the past few days, Sharma — with a tendency to grow violent — had at least half a dozen instances of misconduct, during which he refused to eat or cooperate with the jail staffers. The others, however, stayed calm.
Jail sources said that Sharma had been punished 11 times during his stay at Tihar, while Gupta was punished eight times, Kumar was hauled up thrice and Singh just once.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
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