A Tihar jail official has informed a Delhi court that two of the four death row convicts in the December 16 gang-rape —Pawan Gupta and Akshay Kumar Singh — have been shifted to a separate cell.
‘Harassed by fellow prisoner’
The convicts had moved the court seeking transfer from a common cell, where they were shifted last month, alleging that they were being physically and mentally harassed by a fellow prisoner.
The official informed Special Judge Sanjeev Aggarwal that both inmates were shifted to a separate cell on January 11. “As the grievance of both inmates has been addressed, the application is disposed of,” the court said.
They have now been shifted to another cell with cameras installed keeping in mind Ram Singh, one of the accused who committed suicide during trial, the official added. The counsel for the two convicts submitted that his clients feared for their lives given the apprehension that their fellow prisoner might harm them. With them being moved them to a separate cell, the counsel said he had no grievance.
Pawan, Akshay, Vinay Sharma and Mukesh were sentenced to death by a trial court in 2013.
