Nirbhaya case: Convict’s wife seeks divorce before his hanging | Sansani(17.03.2020)

The wife of one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, Akshay Thakur, has filed a divorce petition in a local court in Aurangabad.

In her plea, she said she doesn’t want to live as a widow as it is a social stigma. She wants to divorce her husband first, who is set to be hanged on March 20. The court has posted the matter for March 19. 

All the four convicts of Nirbhaya are currently lodged in Tihar jail and are set to be hanged on March 20. They have been using tactics to delay the hanging, which has already been postponed twice. They have even approached international court and India's Human Rights Commission.