Parents of the December 16 gangrape victim outside the Supreme Court | Photo Credit: IANS

Key Highlights Indira Jaising, tweeted on Friday night, asking Nirbhaya's mother to forgive the men who raped her daughter Jaising took to social media after Nirbhaya's mother expressed her disappointment on the delay in the execution of the convicts On Friday, it was announced that the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case will be hanged on February 1

New Delhi: Senior advocate Indira Jaising has advised Nirbhaya's mother to forgive the six men who were convicted of raping her daughter. Jaising took to Twitter after Nirbhaya's mother gave an interview and expressed her disappointment over the delay in the convicts' execution.

In her tweet, Jaising wrote, "While I fully identify with the pain of Asha Devi, I urge her to follow the example of Sonia Gandhi who forgave Nalini and said she didn’t not want the death penalty for her. We are with you but against the death penalty.(sic)"

While I fully identify with the pain of Asha Devi I urge her to follow the example of Sonia Gandhi who forgave Nalini and said she didn’t not want the death penalty for her . We are with you but against death penalty. https://t.co/VkWNIbiaJp — Indira Jaising (@IJaising) January 17, 2020

Jaising gave the example of Nalini, the woman who was convicted for the assassination of Congress leader Rajiv Gandhi. The tweet was uploaded in response to the interview of Nirbhaya's mother where she criticised prominent persons for politicising the death of her daughter. The grieving mother said that until now, she refrained from commenting on politics. She said that the same people who participated in rallies in 2012 (after the Delhi gang-rape case) and held candle marches have now capitalised on the death of the 23-year-old gangrape victim.

Nirbhaya's mother said, "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. "

On Friday, a Delhi court issued a fresh death warrant for the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case. As per the new warrant, the convicts will be hanged at 6 am on February 1 instead of January 22. The new date of the execution was announced after two of the convicts- Mukesh Singh and Vinay submitted curative petitions. Meanwhile, the mercy petition filed by convict Mukesh was rejected by President Ram Nath Kovind.

After the new date of the execution was announced, Nirbhaya's mother said that she was highly disappointed in the country's judiciary and the government. She said that for the last seven years, she has been waiting for justice to be served.

In December 2012, six men were convicted of gangraping a medical student in a moving bus in the national capital. One of the convicts was sent to a correction home as he was a juvenile. The other convict Ram Singh committed suicide when he was lodged in the Tihar Jail. The other four convicts- Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Kumar and Pawan Gupta will be hanged in the Tihar Jail on the first day of February.