Nirbhaya case: For the first time I am happy to execute four convicts, says Pawan Jallad

NEW DELHI: Hangman, Pawan Jallad who carried out execution of Nirbaya convicts said, "For the first time I am happy to execute four convicts. I had been waiting for this day for long. I thank God and the Tihar jail administration."

A Meerut resident, Pawan Jallad is from Uttar Pradesh prisons department and has been brought by the Tihar jail authorities for the execution. He is being paid Rs 15,000.

Following the execution, Jallad left for Meerut against tight security.

Asha Devi, mother of Nirbhaya says that finally justice was delivered.

"We will continue our fight for justice for India's daughters. Our wait for justice was painful and agonising. We finally got justice," she told media.

"I hugged my daughter's photo," Asha Devi said. "The beasts have been hanged."

The Nirbhaya rape convicts were hanged at Delhi's Tihar Jail this morning.

The case pertains to the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old girl in the national capital in December 2012.

On March 6, A Delhi court had again issued fresh death warrants against four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case and for the fourth time set a date for them to be hanged on March 20 at 5.30 a.m. "It is directed that convicts shall be hanged by the neck until they are dead on March 20 at 5.30 a.m.," said Additional Sessions Judge Dharmendra Rana.

Nirbhaya's mother welcomed the decision and said, "The hanging has already been deferred thrice. I will be satisfied only when they are hanged by the noose."

"Before dying, Nirbhaya had asked me to ensure that her rapists should get such a punishment that this crime was not repeated ever," Nirbhaya's mother, Asha Devi, said after the court directed four death-row convicts in the case to be hanged on March 20 at 5.30 a.m.

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