Vinay got punished most for breaking jail rules

New Delhi, March 21

Of the four convicts hanged to death in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, 26-year-old Vinay Sharma received the maximum punishment for violating jail rules, officials said.

The four — Vinay, Akshay Singh (31), Mukesh Singh (32) and Pawan Gupta (25) — were hanged to death on Friday.

Vinay, who took painting lessons in Tihar Jail, received 11 ‘punishments’ for not following rules, Pawan eight, Mukesh three and Akshay one punishment during their seven-years in jail, they said.

The punishment ranged from curtailing visitation rights of family for a small fight to changing the barracks for creating serious trouble, a jail official explained.

In 2015, Vinay got enrolled into a one-year bachelor’s degree programme, which he could not complete. The year later, Mukesh, Pawan and Akshay took admission in Class 10 in 2016, and appeared for the exam but could not pass it, according to a jail official.

Vinay earned Rs 39,000, Akshay Rs 69,000 and Pawan Rs 29,000, while Mukesh did not involve himself in any work in the jail, he said.

The daily wages earned by the convicts for basic and everyday jobs done in the jail were handed over to their family.

Akshay did tailoring and grinding ‘atta chakki’, Pawan worked in the jail canteen and Vinay worked as a ‘sahayak’ (helper) during the seven years they spent in the jail, he said.

The four men were executed for savagely raping a 23-year-old physiotherapy intern, who came to be known as Nirbhaya, on December 16 in Delhi in 2012. The woman died in a Singapore hospital a fortnight later. — PTI

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Nirbhaya convicts’ time in prison

* Vinay got 11 ‘punishments’ for not following rules, Pawan eight, Mukesh three and Akshay one punishment during seven-years in jail

* The punishment ranged from curtailing visitation rights of family for a small fight to changing barracks for creating serious trouble, an official said

* In jail, Vinay earned Rs39,000, Akshay Rs69,000 and Pawan Rs29,000, while Mukesh didn’t involve in any work