A Delhi court on Saturday said no further directions were required on a plea by the lawyer of three of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape-and-murder case, which alleged the Tihar jail authorities were not handing over certain documents required to file mercy and curative petitions, and disposed of the petition.
Additional sessions judge Ajay Kumar Jain said the convicts' lawyer can take photographs of the relevant documents, diary and paintings from the Tihar jail authorities.
The public prosecutor, appearing for the Delhi Police, told the court that the Tihar jail authorities have supplied all the relevant documents sought by the lawyer of the death row convicts in the case.
The prosecutor claimed that the convicts are only adopting "delaying tactics".
"The entire process is to defeat the law. We have already supplied all the documents. We procured all the documents from all the jails where they went," the counsel said.
He then produced before the court the diary of one of the convicts, Vinay Kumar Sharma, which he had named Darinda, and several paintings and other documents.
"These are all we have. If the court directs, we can hand these over to the convicts right now," the counsel said.
Advocate A.P. Singh, appearing for the convicts, alleged that Vinay was being slow poisoned and was hospitalised, but his medical reports were not being supplied to him.
He further said though he had received some documents on Friday night from the jail authorities, Vinay's personal diary and medical documents have not been supplied.
"They (Tihar jail authorities) say there is no such record. Vinay was being slow poisoned. That's why he was sent to hospital. Vinay made several paintings about that and we want to inform the president about it. Also, what he earned from those paintings needs to be informed," Singh said.
He also alleged that the head of another convict Pawan Singh was "split open" in Mandoli jail and he was shifted to a hospital but those documents were not supplied to the counsel too.
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The documents related to the health of the third convict, Akshay Kumar Singh, were also not supplied and were required to file his curative and mercy petitions, the lawyer said.
Singh had moved an application, alleging that the jail authorities were yet to give the documents, which are required to file the mercy petition for Vinay (26) and curative petitions for Akshay (31)and Pawan (25).
The hanging of all four is to take place on February 1 at 6 am, according to the court order.
