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

Nalini was arrested and convicted for her role in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.

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.

Playing with my daughter’s death for political gains

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. ”

Four convicts, Vinay, Akshay, Pawan and Mukesh were convicted and sentenced to death for raping a 23-year-old woman in a moving bus in the national capital on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012.