#JusticeForNirbhaya: Zee News campaign seeking justice for Nirbhaya gets immense public support

NEW DELHI: It has been more than seven years since a young paramedic - who was later referred to as ‘Nirbhaya’ by the national media - was gang-raped and mutilated by six persons on a moving bus on December 16, 2012, justice is yet to be delivered in the case. This campaign has so far (March 2, 2020) received 57,78,023 missed calls until 7.30 pm.

Due to existing loopholes in the legal system, the convicts in the Nirbhaya case have been repeatedly escaping execution despite their conviction in the ‘rarest of the rare’ case. The delay in serving justice to 'Nirbhaya' has shattered the hopes of her family, which has been relentlessly pursuing the case against all odds for over seven years now, and the people in general, who have been demanding that the convicts be put to gallows at the earliest.

On March 2, the Supreme Court dismissed the curative petition filed by Pawan Gupta, one of the four death row convicts in the 2012 gangrape-murder case. In his curative plea, Pawan had sought commutation of his death penalty to life imprisonment. He had also sought a stay on the execution of black warrant issued by the trial court for the hanging.

Speaking to Zee News Editor-in-Chief Sudhir Chaudhary in his extremely popular show ‘ DNA’, Nirbhaya’s mother Asha Devi recently opened her heart out and made an emotional appeal to the countrymen to support her if they really want justice for her daughter.

Asha Devi pleaded that everyone should come together to ensure justice for Nirbhaya. "If Nirbhaya fails to get justice, no other victim will be able to get justice. All of us should come together and make sure that Nirbhaya gets justice," a teary-eyed Asha Devi said. If women have their rights in the country, the system should change to ensure our rights. Those who tell me to forgive the convicts, I want to ask them, had this happened to their child, would they have forgiven the convicts?" Asha Devi said.

Zee News has started #JusticeForNirbhaya campaign seeking justice for Nirbhaya and appealed to its viewers across the world to give a missed call on +91-7834998998 to express solidarity and support to Asha Devi and her family. Alternatively, people could also tweet with the hashtag '#MaaKaSandesh'.

A Delhi court has issued a fresh death warrant for the four convicts of the Nirbhaya gangrape case. The new date issued by the Patiala Court for the hanging of Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta, and Mukesh Singh is March 3, 2020 at 6 am.