BREAKING: New Date for Hanging of Nirbhaya Convicts Announced
Home > News Shots > India newsNew death warrant has been issued in the Nirbhaya case – the convicts are said to be hanged on March 3 at 6 am.
A 23-year-old physiotherapy student was brutally gangraped in a moving bus in Delhi in 2012 by a gang of six including a juvenile, who can’t be named under Indian laws and Ram Singh, who committed suicide in jail in 2013. Four other convicts in the case – Pawan Gupta, Mukesh Singh, Akshay Thakur and Vinay Sharma – are set to be hanged on February 1, 2020, in Tihar jail.
Below is the general procedure to be followed in hanging of the rapists:
- Prisoners are woken up at 3 am.
- They are allowed to take a bath if they desire. Hot water is also provided on request.
- They are served their favourite breakfast.
- They are given some alone time in case they wish to remember their friends, family and such.
- If desired, they are provided with religious books and allowed to recite prayers.
- They are examined by a doctor and then made to wear plain cotton clothes.
- Their hands would be tied at the back and their faces covered with a black hood.
- Convicts are taken to the gallows, placed under the noose.
- Their legs are tied together.
- Rope is placed around their neck.
- Executioner draws the bolt.
- Hangman gets signal to pull the lever.
- Convicts are hanged to death.
- Bodies are suspended in air for half-an-hour.
- Once the bodies are taken down, a doctor checks to ensure they are dead.
- Autopsy is performed on the bodies. Jail authorities take care of cremation.
- Relatives may be permitted to cremate them after giving an undertaking that they would do so privately and not hold a public demonstration.
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