Mockery of law that convicts filing mercy petitions one by one: Maliwal

After the Delhi Court postponed the date of the conviction in the 2012 Nirbhaya rape case, Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal took to twitter to criticise the legal system and said," The convicts are using the shortcomings in the system to delay their execution."

New Delhi: Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal on Friday claimed the law of the country does not give any right to the victim and the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case are exploiting the "shortcomings" in the system to delay their execution.

Her remarks came after a Delhi court issued fresh death warrants for the four convicts scheduling their execution at 6 am on February 1.

Earlier they were scheduled to be executed on January 22, but that had to postponed after one of them filed a mercy petition before the President. His mercy petition was rejected by President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday.

• देश का कानून ऐसा है जो पीड़िता को कोई हक नहीं देता। कानून की इन्हीं कमियों का फायदा उठा निर्भया के कातिल हर दांवपेच लगा रहे हैं। इनका मक्सद केवल तारीख खींचना है। एक एक करके दया याचिका लगाना कानून का मज़ाक़ है!
  
  ऐसा सिस्टम होना चाहिए जिससे फाँसी तुरंत सारी समयबद्ध तरीके से हो! https://t.co/Nd5aOAVf4B

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  देश का कानून ऐसा है जो पीड़िता को कोई हक नहीं देता। कानून की इन्हीं कमियों का फायदा उठा निर्भया के कातिल हर दांवपेच लगा रहे हैं। इनका मक्सद केवल तारीख खींचना है। एक एक करके दया याचिका लगाना कानून का मज़ाक़ है!
  
  ऐसा सिस्टम होना चाहिए जिससे फाँसी तुरंत सारी समयबद्ध तरीके से हो! https://t.co/Nd5aOAVf4B

  — Swati Maliwal (@SwatiJaiHind) January 17, 2020

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  देश का कानून ऐसा है जो पीड़िता को कोई हक नहीं देता। कानून की इन्हीं कमियों का फायदा उठा निर्भया के कातिल हर दांवपेच लगा रहे हैं। इनका मक्सद केवल तारीख खींचना है। एक एक करके दया याचिका लगाना कानून का मज़ाक़ है!
  
  ऐसा सिस्टम होना चाहिए जिससे फाँसी तुरंत सारी समयबद्ध तरीके से हो! https://t.co/Nd5aOAVf4B

  — Swati Maliwal (@SwatiJaiHind) January 17, 2020

"The law of the country is such that it does not give any rights to the victim. Taking advantage of these shortcomings in the law, the murderers of Nirbhaya are using all the tactics. Their aim is to get the execution date postponed," she tweeted in Hindi.

Advocating a system where executions are not postponed like this, she tweeted, "It is a mockery of the law that the convicts are filing mercy petitions one by one."