Sonia May become the first women to be hanged in Independent India

Sonia May become the first women to be hanged in Independent India

India
Haryana

Sonia and his husband Sanjeev had brutally murdered eight persons including his MLA father Relu Ram Punia  at Prabhuvala village in Hisar on August 23, 2001

Those killed included her
mother Krishna,
sister Priyanka,
stepbrother Sunil, his wife Shakuntala and their three children - Lokesh, 4, Shivani, 2, and 45-day-old Preeti.

Sessions Judge had awarded death penalty to the couple on May 31, 2004.

on April 2, 2005, High Court commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment.

On February 15, 2007, the SC upheld the Sessions Judge’s verdict of death sentence to Sonia and Sanjeev in the case

on August 23, 2007 Supreme Court of India  rejected the review petition clearing the way for hanging of Sonia and Sanjeev

Presently Sonia and her husband both are lodged in Ambala Jail

Before this death punishment, other females were also given death punishment by courts  but there is no instance of any woman being hanged in the history of independent India.

After 5 years of delay On April 3, 2013,  President Pranab Mukherjee rejected mercy petition of Sonia.

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Tuesday, April 09, 2013

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