The wife of one of the death row convict, Akshay Singh, on Thursday fainted outside Delhi's Patiala house court. She said that her husband is innocent and along with him her son and she should be also hanged to death. Akshay's wife, who beat up herself with sandals, was consoled by lawyers outside the court.
Crying outside the Patiala House Court in city, she said "I want justice too. Kill me too. I don't want to live. My husband is innocent. Why is the society after us?"
"We were living with the hope that we will get justice but we are being killed every day for the past seven years," she said.
The counsel for the victim's parents said however that the convict does not deserve leniency. "Akshay was a member of our society. Everybody is pained for unnatural deaths, but Akshay does not deserve leniency," the lawyer said.
On March 5, a trial court had issued fresh death warrants for March 20 at 5.30 am, as the date for the execution of convicts Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay (31).
The court was on Thursday informed that no legal remedies of any of the four convicts in the were pending in any of the courts.