“Need To Be Divorced Before He Is Hanged”: Nirbhaya Convict’s Wife Moves Court
The entire 4 convicts are recently lodged in Tihar prison and are set to be hanged on March 20.
New Delhi:
The spouse of Akshay Kumar Singh, one of the vital convicts within the Nirbhaya case, has filed for a divorce in an area court docket in Bihar’s Aurangabad.
Within the plea, the spouse of convict Akshay Kumar Singh has mentioned she does now not need to are living the lifetime of a widow as her husband is ready to be hanged on March 20. The court docket has posted the subject for March 19.
Punita, Akshaya’s spouse, has mentioned, “My husband is blameless. I need to be legally divorced earlier than he’s hanged.”
Punita’s attorney Mukesh Kumar Singh, talking to media in Aurangabad mentioned, “My consumer (Akshay Kumar Singh’s spouse Punita Singh) has a proper to hunt divorce from her husband. For this reason I’ve filed a plea within the circle of relatives court docket. She has the appropriate to hunt divorce beneath Segment 13(2)(II) of Hindu Marriage Act which says a girl can search divorce if the husband has, because the solemnisation of the wedding, been in charge of rape, sodomy or bestiality.”
A senior attorney at Tis Hazari court docket in Delhi informed IANS, “Sure, the lady can report for divorce if her husband has been convicted in a case of rape.”
The entire 4 convicts of Nirbhaya — Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) are recently lodged in Tihar prison and are set to be hanged on March 20. They’ve been the use of ways to lengthen the placing, which has already been postponed two times. They’ve even approached world court docket and India’s Human Rights Fee.
On the other hand, some criminal professionals really feel that there’s no likelihood of any longer lengthen as all formalities were finished and the convicts have exhausted all criminal therapies.
