New Delhi: New Delhi’s Tihar Jail is preparing for the hanging of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape-murder case. Now, the Tihar Jail authorities have readied a new gallows frame which would allow for all four convicts to be hung together. With this, Tihar has become the first prison in the country where four accused will be hung simultaneously. Till now, the central jail had only one plank for hanging.
Sources in Tihar Jail said that a JCB machine was brought into the prison premises for the completion of the task as along with the frame for hanging, a tunnel needs to be dug underground too. It is this tunnel which will be used to transfer the bodies of the hanged convicts. All four convicts in the Nirbhaya case will be executed on Jan. 22 at 7 am in Jail Cell 3, the same place where Afzal Guru, the terrorist convicted in Parliament attack case, was hanged. The officials said they will be hanged together.
