Published 11:02 IST, January 18th 2020

Nirbhaya's mother lashes out at Indira Jaisingh's 'follow Sonia, forgive rapists' shocker

Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi slammed Advocate Indira Jaising for her insensitive comments calling her 'a blot' on the name of women.

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After vocate Indira Jaising's shocking comment asking Nirbhaya's mor to 'follow' Sonia Gandhi and 'forgive' her daughter's rapists, Nirbhaya's mor Asha Devi has come out to slam vocate calling her 'a blot' on name of women.

On Friday, Indira Jaising h tweeted an 'appeal' to Asha Devi saying that just like Sonia Gandhi forgave killer of her husband and stopped her from being hanged, she should do same. She also stated that while she 'identified with her pain' she was against death penalty. Reacting to her statement Asha Devi asked Jaising how she even 'dared' to say her something so outrous when entire country was waiting for justice to be delivered for past 7 years.

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"I want to ask Indira Jaising who is she to appeal to me? She might be a mor of rapists, a relative of se rapists but she is thing to me. I have met her multiple times in courts, she has never asked me how I was, but when it comes to well being of rapists, she is asking for forgiveness." 

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'y run ir business on this' 

Asha Devi furr attacked Indira Jaising and said, "A woman like Indira Jaising takes money from people in name of Human Rights Activism. ir business runs on this. I suggest she should go and get in touch with 2-3 families of rapists so that she can keep running her business. I do t need anyone's suggestions." She also condemned  postponing of rapists hanging from January 22 to February 1 saying, "What murders wanted, courts did, government did. I am t happy about this at all." 

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Asha Devi also stated that she will never be able to forgive rapists of her daughter even if God came down and asked her to do so. She said that Jaising would never have me such a careless comment if it was her daughter who h gotten raped so brutally inste. "Because of such women, girls are being raped, burnt and brutalized in country. Because of such a mentality. Would she forgive if such an incident would have happened to her daughter or even her?" she asked. 

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11:02 IST, January 18th 2020