Senior BJP leader Prakash Javadekar said that the AAP government has given notices to all convicts within a week of the Supreme Court order
New Delhi: As there is a “negligence” for the “delay” in the hanging of Nirbhaya case convicts the BJP on Thursday blamed the AAP government’s for it by saying it took more than two-and-a-half years for the Arvind Kejriwal dispensation to give notice to convicts after Supreme Court rejected their appeal against the death sentence in 2017.
Senior BJP leader Prakash Javadekar said that the AAP government has given notices to all convicts within a week of the Supreme Court order. Convicts would have been hanged earlier and the nation would have got justice.
On Wednesday the Delhi Government recommended rejecting the mercy plea filed by Mukesh Singh, one of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case, and forwarded it to the LG at “lightning speed”, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said.
It is also informed the Delhi high court during a hearing that execution of the convicts will not take place on January 22 as a mercy plea has been filed by one of them Mukesh Singh.
Meanwhile, AAP has taken a jibe at the BJP for holding it responsible for the delay, saying law and order come under the Centre and the saffron party is lying to mislead the people.
AAP leader Sanjay Singh said it is an “insensitive and uninformative lie” as law and order is completely under the Centre.
“Whatever delay is happening, the BJP is responsible and that is why instead of misguiding people, Union minister Prakash Javdekar should apologize for ignoring such a sensitive matter,” said Singh.
The four convicts in the case Mukesh (32) Vinay Sharma (26), Akshay Kumar Singh (31) and Pawan Gupta (25) were to be hanged on January 22 at 7 am in Tihar jail. A Delhi High court had issued their death warrants on January 7, 2020.
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