Nirbhaya's mother slams Indira Jaisingh's pardon appeal for daughter's rapists

Nirbhaya’s mother Asha Devi today slammed senior Supreme Court advocate Indira Jaisingh for her comments asking her to forgive the four men who brutally raped her daughter. Reacting to Indira Jaisingh's tweet, Nirbhaya's mother said, “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,” she was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

“I can’t believe how Indira Jaising even dared to suggest such this. I met her many times over the years in the Supreme Court, not once did she ask for my well being and today she is speaking for convicts. Such people earn a livelihood by supporting rapists, hence rape incidents don’t stop,” she said. The four convicts, Mukesh Singh, Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma — were among the six men who brutally gang-raped the paramedical student on a moving bus on December 16, 2012, and pushed her out of the vehicle. 

#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