Dramatic scenes unfolded inside the Delhi court on Tuesday when mother of a convict in the Nirbhaya case walked up to the victim's mother and begged for her son's life, minutes before the court issued death warrants against the four convicts.
“Please forgive my son. I am begging you for his life,” Mukesh Singh's mother pleaded to Asha Devi as tears rolled down her face. Asha Devi, who was also in tears, replied that she also had a daughter.
“How can I forget it? I have been waiting for justice for seven years,” she told the convict's mother, reported NDTV.
The conversation ended with the judge reminding them that the court is in session.
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Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora ruled that the four convicts—Mukesh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Singh and Pawan Gupta—will be hanged on January 22, at 7 am in Delhi's high-security Tihar jail.
"The verdict will restore faith of women in law," said Asha Devi soon after the court order.
The victim, referred to as Nirbhaya, was gang-raped and brutally assaulted on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 inside a moving bus in south Delhi by six persons before being thrown out on the road.
She died on December 29, 2012 at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. The incident had triggered a nation-wide outrage.