New Delhi: A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed in the Supreme Court on Friday seeking death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case to hanged within a month and their executions be live telecasted.
The petition sought that review and curative petition of the convicts be disposed of within a month. The Supreme Court is slated to hear review plea of one of the convicts, Akshay Kumar Singh, on December 17.
"Dispose of all the Nirbhaya accused review, curative and mercy petitions within one month and to execute the death warrants of all accused by hanging within one month," the petition stated.
It also requested to carry out live telecast of the hanging of the accused. "Allow the Nirbhaya family to watch the execution (like in the USA) of the all accused of Nirbhaya case so that it may bring closure to the Nirbhaya family."
The petitioner also demanded that the cost of the hanging rope must be retrieved "so that the accused family may understand that it was their responsibility too to impart values in their rapist son."
The plea sought for a direction to frame guidelines for completion of both police probe and trial in fast track court within six months in rape and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) cases.
It also sought appeals in the High Court and Supreme Court to be completed within four months and three months, respectively.