Chairperson of Guild of Service V Mohini Giri has said that she would appeal in the Supreme Court to commute the death sentence awarded to a woman for killing seven of her family members to life imprisonment.
Shabnam and her lover Salim, from Bawankhedi village in Amroha, were awarded death penalty in 2010 by a district court for the murder of seven of her family members in 2008.
I would soon meet Shabnam in Muradabad Jail and file an appeal in the Supreme Court to commute her death sentence to life imprisonment, Giri told PTI over phone on Friday.
While advocating to scrap death penalty altogether, Giri said India should join other countries in banning capital punishment, especially for women.
She said that earlier when she was the Chairperson of National Commission for Women, she had saved a woman in Mahoba region from being hanged in 1998, by filling an appeal in the Allahabad High Court to stop the execution.
Later, my appeal in the Supreme Court was accepted and the death sentence of the woman was commuted to life imprisonment, she said.
