After photo goes viral, death row convict Shabnam shifted to district jail
India
Updated: Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 17:16 [IST]
Bareilly, Mar 02: Death-row convict Shabnam was shifted to the district jail here on Monday after a photograph of her in another jail where she was lodged till now went viral on social media.
The picture was apparently clicked on January 26 in Rampur. The incident was taken as a breach of security and violation of the jail manual.
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Bareilly jail superintendent P Singh confirmed that Shabnam, who may be the first woman to be hanged in India since Independence, had been shifted to the district jail.
Updated Feb 20, 2021 | 10:10 IST
Shabnam s 12-year-old son Mohammad Taj urged President Ram Nath Kovind to commute the death sentence of his mother saying, he loves her . A court in Amroha is yet to decide on the date of execution of Shabnam | Photo Credit: Twitter
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Shabnam could be the first-ever woman convict to be hanged in independent India.
New Delhi: Mohammad Taj, the 12-year-old son of the death row convict Shabnam Ali, has urged President Ram Nath Kovind to commute the death sentence of his mother.
Shabnam was sentenced to death for killing her seven family members including a baby in 2008 as they opposed her relationship with her paramour in Amroha district of Uttar Pradesh.