Nirbhaya case: Tihar rejigs preparations after new death warrants
TNN | Jan 18, 2020, 04.37 AM IST
Sources added that special attention was being paid to maintaining the health of the four convicts ever since Vinay Sharma fell unconscious inside his cell on Wednesday. Sharma has been behaving restlessly and aggressively, and also refuses to eat the food served to him in his cell. All the four convicts would now be kept on suicide watch through the day, said sources.
Jail officers, however, rubbished the rumour about a suicide attempt by Sharma, that was doing the rounds on social media.
The jail staffers and security guards have been asked to carefully monitor the activities of the four men, especially when they are in the bathroom and during night hours. A new set of ropes from Buxar might also be procured days before the hanging. The ones that were to be used on January 22 have already been softened with ripe bananas and soap, and they could decompose till the next date.
Jail sources said that the prisoners would now be allowed to meet their family members and lawyers twice a week. On Friday, Pawan Gupta was allowed to meet his father.
While the curative petitions of two of the convicts are pending with a court, Gupta has filed a petition in the Supreme Court to review the high court order, which earlier dismissed his plea to declare him a juvenile. Gupta, Sharma and Akshay Thakur can still lodge a mercy petition before the President before February 1. Tihar authorities will again issue a notice to the three prisoners giving them an ultimatum to file the mercy plea.
Jail officials added that the cells in which the four men have been moved now are well lit so that their activities can be monitored even at night. Their health would be monitored regularly and they would only be allowed medicines that are prescribed by the jail doctors.
(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 18, 2020, 04.37 AM IST
NEW DELHI: With Mukesh Singh’s plea for a mercy petition getting dismissed by the President, Tihar authorities have started making fresh preparations for hanging the four Nirbhaya convicts on February 1.Their diet will be fixed again to maintain a standard weight parameter required for executing the death penalty, said jail sources.
Sources added that special attention was being paid to maintaining the health of the four convicts ever since Vinay Sharma fell unconscious inside his cell on Wednesday. Sharma has been behaving restlessly and aggressively, and also refuses to eat the food served to him in his cell. All the four convicts would now be kept on suicide watch through the day, said sources.
Jail officers, however, rubbished the rumour about a suicide attempt by Sharma, that was doing the rounds on social media.
The jail staffers and security guards have been asked to carefully monitor the activities of the four men, especially when they are in the bathroom and during night hours. A new set of ropes from Buxar might also be procured days before the hanging. The ones that were to be used on January 22 have already been softened with ripe bananas and soap, and they could decompose till the next date.
Jail sources said that the prisoners would now be allowed to meet their family members and lawyers twice a week. On Friday, Pawan Gupta was allowed to meet his father.
While the curative petitions of two of the convicts are pending with a court, Gupta has filed a petition in the Supreme Court to review the high court order, which earlier dismissed his plea to declare him a juvenile. Gupta, Sharma and Akshay Thakur can still lodge a mercy petition before the President before February 1. Tihar authorities will again issue a notice to the three prisoners giving them an ultimatum to file the mercy plea.
Jail officials added that the cells in which the four men have been moved now are well lit so that their activities can be monitored even at night. Their health would be monitored regularly and they would only be allowed medicines that are prescribed by the jail doctors.
(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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