Nirbhaya case; convicts will be hanged on january 22

After seven years of battle Nirbhaya case convicts will be hanged on January 22. Meerut hangman Pawan Jallad will carry out the execution of convicts in Tihar jail. Today, Delhi court issued death warrants against all four convicts. The hanging is scheduled to take place at 7 am.

Meanwhile, special ropes for the execution have been brought from a jail in Bihar’s Buxar. The jail had reportedly sent ropes for the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru in 2013 as well. Pawan Jallad is a third-generation executioner at the Meerut Jail. His grandfather Kallu had carried out the hanging of Beant Singh and Satwant Singh, involved in the assassination of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi.