Published 10:28 IST, January 18th 2020
Bar Council issues notice to Nirbhaya rapists’ counsel AP Singh for absence from court
Bar Council of Delhi on Saturday issued notice to AP Singh, counsel for three Nirbhaya convicts. The council has sought his reply in 2 weeks in view of HC order
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Bar Council of Delhi on Saturday issued notice to AP Singh, counsel for three Nirbhaya convicts. The council has sought his reply in two weeks in view of the High Court order in the case. Recently, Delhi High Court asked BCD to take action and also imposed Rs 25000 fine on Singh, who allegedly didn't appear before Court despite communication.
Delhi HC fined AP Singh for wasting its time
On December 19, while rejecting the claim of Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the convicts in Nirbhaya gang-rape case, that he was a juvenile at the time of the crime, Justice Suresh Kait of the Delhi HC also slapped a fine of Rs 25,000 on Gupta’s counsel AP Singh for wasting its time and using delaying tactics. It also asked the Bar Council of Delhi to take action against Singh for filing the affidavit pertaining to the age.
Fresh death warrants issued
Meanwhile, a Delhi court has issued fresh death warrants for all the four convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case. The court quashed the earlier death warrant which was scheduled for January 22. According to the new death warrant, the four convicts -- Mukesh, Pawan, Akshay, Vinay -- will be hanged on February 1 at 6 am. The judgment comes after the Tihar jail authorities sought the issuance of fresh death warrants against the court convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case.
On Friday, Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi expressed displeasure with the delay in the hanging and said the convicts were getting what they wanted. She appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi "with folded hands" to hang them on January 22, and broke down in an interview as she tore into political parties for using Nirbhaya's death for their own gain.
#WATCH Asha Devi, mother of 2012 Delhi gang-rape victim: Till now, I never talked about politics, but now I want to say that those people who held protests on streets in 2012, today the same people are only playing with my daughter's death for political gains. pic.twitter.com/FvaC89TwKI
— ANI (@ANI) January 17, 2020
Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case
A 23-year-old paramedic student, referred to as Nirbhaya, was gangraped and brutally assaulted on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 in a moving bus in south Delhi by six persons before she was thrown out on the road. She died on December 29, 2012, at a hospital in Singapore.
One of the six accused in the case, Ram Singh, allegedly committed suicide in the Tihar Jail. A juvenile, who was among the accused, was convicted by a juvenile justice board and was released from a reformation home after serving a three-year term. The top court in its 2017 verdict had upheld the capital punishment awarded to them by the Delhi High Court and the trial court.
(With agency inputs)
10:28 IST, January 18th 2020