Day 455

    In my last post, I wrote about the capital punishment awarded to the accused of the Nirbhaya rape case. Now there are a lot of things going on after the issue of death warrant. The capital punishment has to be given on 1^st February 2020. Now one of the accused, Mukesh Singh has filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the rejection of mercy petition by the President of India. I think this is another afford to get extension in the capital punishment.

    I wonder why this petition has been filed against the rejection of the mercy petition. I don’t see any logic in this. I agree that many of you will say that there is legal process which can’t be overlooked. Its true and I agree with this. There is universal statement that it doesn’t matter whether hundred hard core criminals are released by the court of law but no innocent can be punished by the court of law. But the thing which is happening here is just to have more time to postpone the proceeding of the capital punishment.

    I think that the defence lawyer of the accused is doing this intentionally. Every time, he is using the loopholes of the legal provisions given by the constitution. Each of the accused has got two options to appeal. First one is to go to Supreme Court and second provision is of mercy petition to be filled before the President of India. Adv. S P Singh is playing will all the loopholes so that he can bail out his clients from the death warrants. He hasn’t filled a single petition in the Supreme Court for all the four accused at the same time. Every time, he is saying that until and unless a single petition is pending in the court of law or in front of the President of India then all four can’t be given death sentence at a time.

    Here I want to ask Adv. S P Singh that if he is sure that his clients are innocent and they don’t deserve to get death sentence then why hasn’t filed the petitions against the Supreme Court at the same time? Why he hasn’t put the mercy petition of all his clients to the President at the same time? What he is trying to prove here? Is he trying to become national hero by try to delay the death sentence even by the rejection of mercy petition of the President of two accused? I have read the media report that Adv. S P Singh has challenged Nirbhaya’s mother that this death sentence won’t be there for long time. He will get his clients out of the jail. This was an accusation made by Nirbhaya’s mother. I don’t know what are the real thing but the circumstances and the movement of the petition are proving that Adv. S P Singh have some mysterious plan in his mind. Otherwise he wouldn’t have tried every loophole to save his clients.

    It’s a proven fact that his clients are no innocent persons. It has been proven that they have done barbaric act which has been proven by the court of the law and they have been awarded the punishment. Then why Adv. S P Singh is trying to delay the capital punishment of his clients? What make him think that his clients are above the law of the country? What kind of example he is trying to put in front of others by getting this punishment converted into life imprisonment? I know that rape incidences won’t stop after the four accused are being hanged but at least there will be a clear message to all those that there is no way of escape after doing barbaric crime after rape.

    Sometimes, I believe that justice delayed is justice denied. The honourable judges has to take some initiative now so that further attempts by Adv. S P Singh should be stopped from making fun of the judiciary system as well as the Indian constitutions. I think and I request the honourable Judges to pass the new date of the capital punishment as soon as it can be. Trying every option can’t be made any excuse to delayed justice and the expectations of the general public.