The name Shabnam has been circulating across the country since yesterday. Because Shabnam is going to be the first woman to be executed in independent India.
A woman named Shabnam is a resident of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. The young woman, who holds two PG degrees. Had a physical relationship with a man named Salim. Shabnam’s family was strongly rebuked for her misbehavior before the wedding.
She was refrained not to return to him once more. However, Shabnam did not have any change of mind and decided to go ahead and marry Salim. Permission of family members was sought for this.
They refused and refrained Shabnam under house arrest. Shabnam along with her boyfriend Salim hatched a plan to murder her whole family and brutally killed seven family members on April 14, 2008, almost 13 years ago.
The accused were arrested by the police five days after the incident. At that time Shabnam was already seven weeks pregnant when medical tests were carried out in order to move them both to jail.
The police investigation revealed several interesting things. It turned out that Shabnam was the one who encouraged Salim to kill her family members.
On July 14, 2010, the Mathura court, which conducted a full hearing in the case, handed down a sensational verdict sentencing the accused Shabnam and her boyfriend to execution.
However, she gave birth to a child in prison. she raised the son with her in the prison. However, children were not with a prisoner mother for more than six years.
In this order in 2015, one of the Child Welfare Committee decided to adopt Shabnam’s son to someone. With that, Shabnam’s college friend Usman Saifi came forward to take charge of her son. He took the child with him and raised him.
Speaking on the occasion, Saifi said, “I was very weak financially during my school days. Shabnam helped me with money many times. Because of her, I was able to finish college. She is more than an older sister to me. I went from there after finishing school. I was shocked to learn that she had murdered her family members after that. I wanted to go and meet her. “
“ At the same time, we saw an ad about Shabnam’s son’s adoption I had the opportunity to repay her for the good she had done for me. I wanted to take responsibility for her son myself. I also talked to my wife about it. She also agreed. ” Saifi is currently working as a journalist in Bulandshahr.
The convicts then approached the Allahabad high court challenging the Mathura court’s execution verdict in 2010. It upheld the judgment given by the lower court and dismissed to review petitions.
The same was repeated there and in 2015 when they approached the Supreme Court. They encountered a backlash as the supreme court upheld the execution verdict too. Later, as a last resort, they apologized to then-President Pranab Mukherjee, but he refused.
Recently, the Mathura court ordered the jail authorities to make arrangements for the execution of the convicts who brutally murdered seven family members. Made it clear that dates would be finalized soon.
Uttar Pradesh jail authorities are set for the execution of a woman for the first time in independent India.
With this, Talari Pawan Jallad is engaged in the work of preparing the execution.
The last time a woman was executed in India was in 1870 during British rule. It is noteworthy that a woman is being hanged again almost 150 years later.
Salim will also be hanged in Agra by the time Shabnam is hanged in Mathura jail. It is noteworthy that almost 40 years later Salim is being arranged to be taken to the altar of the Agra central jail.
However, her lawyers want Shabnam to be pardoned, continuing the same tradition. Shabnam’s twelve-year-old son, Taj, on the other hand, pleads for the abolition of the execution imposed on his mother.
He has questioned what will his situation be if his mother is hanged.
He wrote a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind asking him to forgive his mother for the assassination.
Saifi said Shabnam’s son “Taj knows all the details about his mother. The boy is shocked to learn that Shabnam will soon be on the execution. That is why he is asking President Ramnath Kovind to forgive his mother. Filed an amnesty petition to this effect. Sadly, I have no answer to the question that the child asks what my situation would be if my mother died. That is why he wrote a letter to Ramnath Kovind asking for an apology as a last resort. We have to see what happens.”
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