Nirbhaya: Tihar jail asks for hangman

January 08, 2020 12:16

More than a month before death warrants were issued in the Nirbhaya case on Tuesday, a jail in Bihar had been commissioned to make 10 execution ropes, raising speculations that these could be used for the four accused, who are scheduled to be hanged on January 22. The four convicts are housed in Tihar jail in Delhi.

In fact, Jai Kumar Singh, Minister of State for jail said today that Tihar jail had asked to avail the service of a hangman from Meerut for the execution of the Nirbhaya Rape case convicts. "We have approved permission for the same," he said.

The Buxar jail, the only prison in the state having the required knowhow, had received an instruction to the effect in the first week of December. However, state government officials could not confirm if the ropes from Buxar will be used for the execution of the accused.

The four convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case will be hanged on January 22 at 7 am in Tihar jail, a Delhi court said on Tuesday.

According to Buxar jail superintendent Vijay Kumar Arora, the ropes are "strong but with a short shelf life as these are made of unprocessed cotton", and were made available to the prison directorate by the December 14 deadline.

"We do not know where these are going to be used. But, the Buxar jail has a long tradition of manufacturing such ropes," he had said. "It is from this jail that the rope used for executing the death sentence awarded to Parliament attack case accused Afzal Guru was sent. In 2016-17, we had received orders from Patiala jail though we do not know for what specific purpose. It takes about three days to prepare one rope and it involves mainly manual labour with a little use of motorised machinery," he added. Arora said the last time a rope was supplied from here, it had cost Rs 1,725 "only".

Image: Jai Kumar Singh (pictured), Minister of State for jail said today that Tihar jail had asked to avail the service of a hangman from Meerut for the execution of the Nirbhaya Rape case convicts. "We have approved permission for the same," he said.

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