Convicts' lawyer mocked me, said hanging postponed till eternity: Nirbhaya's mother

She alleged that the convicts' lawyer AP Singh pointed fingers at her and told her that the hangings will get postponed till eternity.

Soon after a local court in Delhi postponed the hanging of the four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case, Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi broke down outside the court and said her hopes have been dashed.

She alleged that the convicts' lawyer AP Singh pointed fingers at her and told her that the hangings will get postponed till eternity.

Asha Devi said she will continue her fight till the convicts in the 2012 gangrape and murder case are hanged. She told reporters that her "hopes are dashed" but she will continue her fight till the convicts are hanged.

"Mujrimom ke vakeel AP Singh ne mujhe aaj anguli dikha kar challenge kiya ki ye faasi ab anant kaal tak tal gayi hai (Today, the convicts AP Singh pointed fingers at me and challenged me that he will get the hangings to be postponed till eternity)," Nirbhaya's mother told reports outside the court.

Blaming political parties and the state and central government for the delay in executing the convicts, Asha Devi said none of them are interested in implementing the court's order. "Why do we have a system where nothing happens to the culprits even after courts have pronounced them guilty and awarded sentences?" she asked.

"The government will have to execute them. I will continue my fight. These convicts have no right to live. We keep getting disappointed by the system. I will continue my fight till the convicts are hanged," she said.

On Friday, a Delhi court postponed the execution of death warrants of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case till further order.

Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana passed the order on a plea by the convicts seeking a stay on their execution on Saturday, February 1.

The black warrants for execution of the death sentence against Pawan Gupta, Vinay Kumar Sharma, Akshay Kumar and Mukesh Kumar Singh, were issued on January 17.

A 23-year-old physiotherapy intern who came to be known as "Nirbhaya" (the fearless one) was gangraped and savagely assaulted on the night of December 16, 2012, in a moving bus in South Delhi. She died of her injuries a fortnight later in a Singapore hospital.

(With inputs from PTI.)