Mercy petition of Vikram Singh Walia and Jasvir Singh, both accused in sensational Abhi Verma Kidnapping and Murder case is rejected by The President of India on September 27th.
Along with a woman accomplice, the two had kidnapped Abhi, a goldsmith’s son, for ransom in February 2005 and had later killed him.
Execution Orders by District and Session Courts, Hoshiarpur
“This is to authorise and require to carry the said sentence into execution causing the said …to be hanged by neck until he be dead on 25th day of October 2016 at 9 am in your jail…with an endorsement certifying that the sentence has been executed,” reads an order issued by the District and Sessions court, Hoshiarpur.
The department of Punjabs’s Department of Prisons which has to execute the death penalty, now has to arrange for a hangman as it has none on its rolls. There have been no hangings in Punjab after June 16, 1989, when hangman Kaloo was called from the Tihar Jail to execute brothers Gurcharan Singh and Pritam Singh of Sangrur.
As per the Punjab Jail Manual, 1896, in the absence of an official hangman, the jail authorities can get a hangman from another jail or else the Deputy Jail Superintendent has to perform the task.
