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India gang-rape convict claims ‘forced to have sex’ with co-accused

Lawyer says Mukesh Singh was also severely beaten many times in Indian jail



Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi at the Supreme Court in New Delhi on Tuesday. The Supreme Court questioned one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, as to how he could allege 'non-application of mind' by the President in rejecting his mercy petition.
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New Delhi: The lawyer for a man convicted in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case, Mukesh Singh, who is set to be hanged on February 1, has told the apex court on Tuesday that his client has been sexually abused inside Delhi’s Tihar Jail.

Senior advocate Anjana Prakash said this to the Supreme Court during the hearing of Singh’s plea seeking judicial review of the rejection of his mercy plea by the President.

“I was sexually abused in Tihar jail. I was forced to have sexual intercourse with co-accused 31-year-old Akshay. I was also severely beaten up many times.

“All these statements were given by me but these were not placed before the president,” Prakash claimed in her submission before the court.

A bench headed by Justice R. Banumathi was hearing Mukesh’s plea.

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Levelling serious accusations against the Tihar Jail authorities, Mukesh’s lawyer added that her 32-year-old client was forced to have sex in front of other prisoners.

Mukesh and five other men, including a juvenile, had brutally gang-raped and assaulted a Delhi girl on a moving bus leading to her death in over a month after the incident on December 16, 2012.

Contending that her client has been sentenced to death, Anjana Prakash asked the court “but was he sentenced to be raped?”

She also contended before the court that several supervening circumstances, which included his illegal solitary confinement, were ignored when the mercy petition was rejected by the president.

The court will pronounce it’s verdict on Wednesday.

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