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[Rick Halperin]

Oct. 2



INDIA:

2 to be hanged for Hoshiarpur boy's murder


Punjab's Department of Prisons will execute the death penalty awarded to Vikram 
Singh Walia and Jasvir Singh for the kidnap and murder of Hoshiarpur boy Abhi 
Verma. Their plea for a lighter sentence was turned down by the President's 
office on September 27.

Along with a woman accomplice, the 2 had kidnapped Abhi, a goldsmith's son, for 
ransom in February 2005 and had later killed him.

"This is to authorise and require to carry the said sentence into execution 
causing the said ... to be hanged by neck until he be dead on 25th day of 
October 2016 at 9 am in your jail ... with an endorsement certifying that the 
sentence has been executed," reads an order issued by the District and Sessions 
court, Hoshiarpur.

The department now has to arrange for a hangman. It has none on its rolls. 
There have been no hangings in Punjab after June 16, 1989, when hangman Kaloo 
was called from the Tihar Jail to execute brothers Gurcharan Singh and Pritam 
Singh of Sangrur.

As per the Punjab Jail Manual, 1896, in the absence of an official hangman, the 
jail authorities can get a hangman from another jail or else the Deputy Jail 
Superintendent has to perform the task.

(source: tribuneindia.com)