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Delhi HC says system ‘suffering from cancer’ after convict in 2012 gangrape and murder case files mercy plea, raps AAP govt for delay in hanging

Press Trust of India • January 15, 2020, 22:45:02 IST
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The Delhi High Court on Tuesday pulled up the AAP government and the prison authorities for creating a system which was “suffering from cancer” and “capable of being exploited” by death row convicts who wanted to “strategically” delay their execution.

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Delhi HC says system ‘suffering from cancer’ after convict in 2012 gangrape and murder case files mercy plea, raps AAP govt for delay in hanging

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday pulled up the AAP government and the prison authorities for creating a system which was “suffering from cancer” and “capable of being exploited” by death row convicts who wanted to “strategically” delay their execution. The strong remarks by a bench of Justices Manmohan and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal came after the Delhi government and prison authorities told the court that none of the four convicts in the 2012 gangrape and murder case could be hanged on the scheduled date of 22 January as one of them has moved a mercy plea. The four convicts — Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Vinay Sharma (26), Akshay Kumar Singh (31) and Pawan Gupta (25) — were to be hanged on 22 January at 7 am in Tihar jail. A Delhi court had issued their death warrants on 7 January. [caption id=“attachment_7805221” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]File image of Delhi High Court. PTI File image of Delhi High Court. PTI[/caption] Delhi government standing counsel (criminal) Rahul Mehra told the court that under the prison rules, if death sentence has been awarded to more than one person in a case and if only one of them moves a mercy plea, the execution of the others too has to be postponed till the plea is decided. “Then your rule is bad if you cannot take action till all the co-convicts have moved a mercy plea. It seems there has been non-application of mind (while framing the rules). The system is suffering from cancer,” the bench shot back. The high court also pulled up the Delhi government and prison authorities for the delay on their part in issuing a notice to the convicts informing them they can move mercy pleas before the President. The bench said the notice ought to have been issued after the apex court’s 5 May, 2017 judgment, instead it was issued on 29 October, 2019 and 18 December, 2019. “Put your house in order. Your house is in disarray. The problem is people will lose confidence in the system. Things are not moving in the right direction. The system is capable of being exploited and we see a stratagem to exploit the system, which is oblivious about it,” the high court said. In defence of the prison authorities, Mehra said the prison rules state that unless all the co-convicts have exercised all their legal remedies, we cannot issue the notice. He agreed the system was being exploited by the convicts to “frustrate” and “defeat” the process of law, as they were moving review pleas and curative petitions separately and in stages.

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