Inside The Village Of Shabnam, The First Woman Likely To Be Hanged In Independent India
by Swati Goel Sharma - Feb 22, 2021 05:17 AM
Her aunt Fatima at Shabnamâs house. (Pictures clicked on 19 February 2021)
Snapshot
Shabnam is convicted for killing seven members of her own family including her parents with the help of her boyfriend Saleem.
Swarajya visits her village in the wake of reports that she could be hanged soon.
Uttar Pradesh, Amroha district, Hasanpur Tehsil, 19 February 2021: I get out of my cab to ask for directions to Bawan Khedi village. The first person who responds â he is the owner of a menâs salon nearby â smiles and says the house I want to go to is right behind me.
Shabnam, a death row convict in the Amroha murder case, has filed a fresh mercy petition before UP Governor Anandiben Patel. Her mercy petition came while preparations are underway at the Mathura Jail to execute her. The Amroha woman was found guilty of murdering seven members of her family.
UPDATED: February 19, 2021 21:18 IST
Shabnam s 12-year-old son Taj Mohammad has made an emotional appeal to President Ram Nath Kovind urging him to forgive his mother`s heinous crime and revoke her death sentence.
Following the confirmation of the death sentence to Shabnam, the first woman to be hanged in independent India, her 12-year-old son Taj Mohammed has again appealed to the President of India, seeking clemency for his mother.
Taj Mohammed, who was separated from his mother after she was sent to jail, has lived in a children s home since then but misses his mother, who is to be hanged later this month at the Mathura district jail.
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Shabnam mercy petition: Son's emotional plea for mercy from President Kovind - Shabman joined hands with her lover Salim to kill seven of her own family members with an axe in April 2008.