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Nirbhaya case verdict: Rishi Kapoor calls it ridiculous

by Raju Vernekar
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IT News
Mumbai, 4 March

Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor on Tuesday termed the delay in awarding punishment to four convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case (Delhi gang rape case of  December 2012 ) as ridiculous and slammed the Delhi court judgement.
He used the popular “Tareekh pe tareekh” dialogue from the 1993 film “Damini” which narrates how the court judgements are delayed and litigants face repeated postponements.
On Monday, a court in Delhi deferred the execution of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case, which was slated for Tuesday, till further orders. The four convicts — Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Kumar Sharma and Akshay Kumar — were scheduled to be hanged at 6 AM on 3 March 2020.
Pawan Gupta, the last of the four convicts to seek legal remedy or file a mercy petition, had moved a fresh application seeking a stay on the hanging, as his mercy plea is pending before the President after the court dismissed their application seeking stay on hanging earlier. He filed the mercy petition after his curative petition was rejected by Supreme Court Monday morning.
The case pertains to the gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old girl, christened Nirbhaya (fearless)  by the media, in the national capital in December 2012. Six people, including the four convicts and a juvenile, were named as accused. Ram Singh, the sixth accused, allegedly committed suicide in Tihar jail days after the trial began in the case. The juvenile was released in 2015 after spending three years in a correctional home.
Rishi Kapoor took to twitter to express his view with a post.  “Nirbhaya case. Tareekh pe tareekh, tareekh pe tareekh, tareekh pe tareekh – ‘Damini’. Ridiculous,” he tweeted. Actress Sonal Chavan, Kangana Ranaut’s sister Rangoli Chandel too expressed similar anguish.
It may be recalled, that “Damini” starring Rishin Kapoor and Sunny Deol with Meenakshi Sheshadri in the title role, is a courtroom drama that was fought out in the aftermath of the rape of a young domestic help by a group of influential boys.
Sunny Deol, who fights the case to ensure justice for the dead victim, mouths the “Tareek pe tareek” dialogue in frustration and anger even as the defence manages to bank on one loophole after the other to keep deferring the verdict. The film was directed by Rajkumar Santoshi. Deol was given Best supporting actor national award for this film.

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