Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut on Thursday lashed out at senior lawyer Indira Jaising for asking Nirbhaya’s mother to forgive the rapists, saying ‘that lady (Jaising) should be kept in jail with those convicts for four days.’ She also said that the convicts should be hanged publicly to set an example for society.
The ‘Queen’ actor, at a promotional event of her upcoming sports movie ‘Panga,’ hit out at Indira Jaising, “That lady (Jaising) should be kept in jail with those convicts for four days… Such women give birth to these kinds of monsters and murderers.”
#WATCH Kangana Ranaut on senior lawyer Indira Jaising’s statement,’Nirbhaya’s mother should forgive the convicts’: That lady (Jaising) should be kept in jail with those convicts for four days…Women like them give birth to these kind of monsters and murderers. (22.1) pic.twitter.com/MtNcAca1QG
— ANI (@ANI) January 23, 2020
Expressing her distress the actor said: “People who can commit such heinous crimes like rape are not minors first of all…such people should be hanged.” Kangana sympathised with Nirabhaya’s parents and expressed her unhappiness at the delay in the execution of the death penalty.
“It has been years since the parents had to go through such a hard phase of life, juggling between the high court and Supreme Court,” she said. Kangana is of the view that convicts should be not be hanged privately as it does not provide the kind of example a public hanging does for society.
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Earlier, Nirbhaya’s mother Asha Devi had slammed senior lawyer Indira Jaising for her suggestion that she should forgive her daughter’s rapists. “Who is Indira Jaising to give me such a suggestion? The whole country wants the convicts to be executed. Just because of people like her, justice is not done with rape victims,” Asha Devi said.
While I fully identify with the pain of Asha Devi I urge her to follow the example of Sonia Gandhi who forgave Nalini and said she didn’t not want the death penalty for her . We are with you but against death penalty. https://t.co/VkWNIbiaJp
— Indira Jaising (@IJaising) January 17, 2020
Jaising had said she fully identifies with the pain of Asha Devi but was against the death penalty. “While I fully identify with the pain of Asha Devi I urge her to follow the example of Sonia Gandhi who forgave Nalini and said she did not want the death penalty for her. We are with you but against the death penalty,” she had said in the tweet.
Nirbhaya was gang-raped and brutally assaulted on December 16 night in 2012 in New Delhi.
A three-judge Supreme Court bench comprising Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna dismissed the juvenility plea of Pawan Gupta, one of the convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case. Gupta had moved the SC against the Delhi High Court order which reaffirmed that Gupta was not a juvenile when he committed the ghastly crime on December 16, 2012. The convict’s review petition has already been dismissed. He along with the three other rapists are scheduled to be hanged till death on February 1, 2020, at 6 am.