SC stays execution of man who killed five daughters
10 Aug 2013 4:11 AM IST
The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the execution of a Madhya Pradesh man who was concurrently awarded capital punishment for hacking to death his five daughters.
Advocate Colin Gonsalves had approached Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam who had earlier ordered an interim stay of the execution of Maganlal Barela, who was scheduled to be hung to death in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh at dawn on Thursday.
The advocate had acted on the basis of a news report published in the Times of India website about possible execution of the convict on Thursday.
He had listed the matter for hearing at 10.30am on 8 August. The stay was issued after members of the People’s Union for Democratic Rights went to his residence and called an urgent hearing on Wednesday night, said sources.
Barela, the man who beheaded his five daughters in Sehore district of Madhya Pradesh in 2011, was to be executed at central jail in Jabalpur on Thursday morning.
Advocate Colin Gonsalves had approached Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam who had earlier ordered an interim stay of the execution of Maganlal Barela, who was scheduled to be hung to death in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh at dawn on Thursday.
The advocate had acted on the basis of a news report published in the Times of India website about possible execution of the convict on Thursday.
He had listed the matter for hearing at 10.30am on 8 August. The stay was issued after members of the People’s Union for Democratic Rights went to his residence and called an urgent hearing on Wednesday night, said sources.
Barela, the man who beheaded his five daughters in Sehore district of Madhya Pradesh in 2011, was to be executed at central jail in Jabalpur on Thursday morning.
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