Advocate Indira Jaising urges Nirbhaya's mother to follow Sonia Gandhi's example, forgive convicts

New Delhi: Senior advocate Indira Jaising on Friday urged Nirbhaya’s mother Asha Devi to ‘pardon’ the four convicts on death row, just like interim Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who forgave Nalini, who was involved in the assassination of her husband, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Jaising attributed her ‘suggestion’ to her stand on the death penalty, of which she is a vocal critic.

On Twitter, commenting on an interview given by Asha Devi to news agency ANI, in which she accused politicians of doing politics over her daughter, 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 want the death penalty for her.”