BJP attacks AAP over delay in Nirbhaya convicts’ hanging

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BJP attacks AAP over delay in Nirbhaya convicts’ hanging

Monday, 20 January 2020 | Staff Reporter | NEW DELHI

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday trained its guns on Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Government over inexpliable “delay” in hanging of convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case on Sunday.

Accusing the AAP dispensation of “trying to save” the four death row convicts, Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari also condemned the suggestion made by senior lawyer Indira Jaising to pardon the Nirbhaya convicts, and questioned her links with the Arvind Kejriwal Government.

Tiwari also referred to Jaising’s representations of the Kejriwal Government in the past as he sought to put the AAP dispensation in the dock over her remarks.

In a tweet on Friday, Jaising has said, while she fully identifies with the pain of Nirbhaya’s mother, she urges her “to follow the example of Sonia Gandhi who forgave Nalini and said she didn’t not (did not) want the death penalty for her”.

Tiwari claimed that the Tihar prison comes under the Delhi Government, and the convicts, who should have been informed about the 2017 verdict soon after, were informed two years later in 2019.

“It shows that first the AAP-led Government delayed the hanging and now trying to save the four convicts,” he alleged. And, then Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia holds a press conference to say, “Police is delaying” the proceedings, he said.

Tiwari said “No political party in the country has done something like this, as the AAP installing the justice for which Nirbhaya’s family has been waiting for eight years,”

A 23-year-old paramedic student, who came to be known as Nirbhaya (fearless), was gang-raped and brutally assaulted on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012, in a moving bus in south Delhi by six persons, including the four death row convicts, before being thrown out on the road.

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