Nirbhaya verdict: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal breaks silence

Mar 20, 2020, 11:37AM IST  Source: Mirror Now

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal reacted after the execution of Nirbhaya convicts at Delhi's Tihar jail. The CM has said: "It took 7 years for justice to be delivered. Today, we have to take a pledge that a similar incident does not happen again. We have seen how the convicts manipulated the law until recently. There are a lot of loopholes in our system and we need to improve the system. We have to improve the policing and judicial system." Four men convicted of gangraping Nirbhaya, a Delhi physiotherapy intern in December 2012 has been finally hanged at 5.30 am on March 20. The four men -- Akshay Kumar Singh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Singh has been executed at Delhi's Tihar Jail. Relevantly, their execution has already been deferred three times. Earlier the date set for their hanging was March 3, but one of them, Pawan Gupta, filed a mercy plea the day before. And like the three other convicts' mercy petitions, his was rejected. Then a fresh date was set for the convicts' execution.