Indian nurse Nimisha Priya is currently being discussed in the entire country. Nimisha has been sentenced to death in Yemen. He is to be hanged on July 16, but continuous efforts are being made to stop this hanging.
Nimisha has been sentenced to death in the murder of Yemen person and her former business partner Talal Abdo Mahdi.
You all have come to know the story of Nimisha Priya, but today we will talk about the woman who was first sentenced to death in India. In India, a woman was crucified 70 years ago. The name of this woman is Ratan Bai Jain. Ratan Bai Jain was hanged in the year 1955. Ratan is not only the first woman who was hanged in India but till date, she is the only woman in independent India who has been hanged.
According to the 2012 report of the National Crime Records Bureau, 414 criminals in India are waiting for the death E. Of these, 13 are women. However, India is one of the few countries where the death sentence is still sentenced, yet no woman has been hanged in India since 1955. In 1955, Ratan Bai Jain became the first and only woman to be hanged.
What was the crime?
Criminal Ratan Bai Jain was a resident of Delhi. After hearing the name of the death sentence, everyone would want to know the answer to the question, what was Ratan’s crime? He had committed such a serious crime that he was hanged directly. Actually, Ratan killed three girls. At the age of 35, Ratan was crucified due to this crime.
Ratan used to work as a manager in Sterility Clinic Clinic. He and three girls were also present in the clinic, whose Ratan knew. Ratan suddenly suspected that these girls were having an affair with her husband. Ratan’s suspicion increased to such an extent that he even decided to kill the three girls.
How to kill?
Ratan killed the three girls due to this suspicion. Ratan neither stabbed the girls’ knives, nor strangled them to death and used poison to carry out the crime. Ratan allegedly added poison to the girls’ food or their drinks. This poison was so dangerous that all three girls died immediately.
When was hanged?
You must have seen the film Jawan, Deepika Padukone is sentenced to death in this film. One such real picture also appeared in Tihar Jail on 3 January. Ratan was found guilty in this murder. In this crime, he was sentenced to death. The year 1955, date 3 January, is the date in the history of India when the first female criminal was hanged. After the Delhi Sessions Court upheld Ratan’s death sentence, the Punjab High Court also upheld his death sentence.
On the morning of 3 January, it must have brought light for everyone, but for Ratan, on the morning of this day, she brought darkness that after which there was never light in her life. It is not that women were not sentenced to death after Ratan, but they were not hanged in the case of many women, but life imprisonment was given instead of punishment-a-death.
Many women were heard sentenced to death
One such case is of Seema Gavit and Renuka Shinde. These two sisters together performed kidnapping of 13 children. Also, 5 of these children were also killed. These women were sentenced by the Kolapur Sessions Court and later the Bombay High Court. The women filed mercy appeal several times to avoid this punishment, but former President Pranab Mukherjee also rejected her mercy appeal in the year 2014.
After the then President Pranab Mukherjee dismissed his mercy petitions, Gavit sisters knocked on the Bombay High Court, citing excessive delay in the decision on their petitions. After this, he got relief in the year 2022. His death sentence was converted into life imprisonment.
Bloody story of Shabnam’s love
A woman named Shabnam has also been sentenced to death. In 2008, Shabnam and Salim-Amroha murder case came to light. In Amroha, Uttar Pradesh, two lovers named Shabnam and Salim offered the family due to their love.
Both of them together killed 7 people of the family, including a 10 -month -old child. After the case came to light, he was sentenced to death by the Amroha Sessions Court in 2010, the decision was upheld by the Allahabad High Court in 2013 and the Supreme Court in May 2015. After this, both Shabnam and Salim are waiting for the death sentence for this crime. Both are currently in jail. However, it has not been revealed when he will be hanged yet. The case has been pending for a long time, but the Supreme Court has upheld their sentence.
Long debate on hanging sentence
There is a long debate on the death penalty. The death penalty is not given in many countries. This is a punishment where once a person is punished, he dies and later it came to light in the case that he was innocent, then there is no way to reverse the person’s sentence and bring him back.
Due to this, the Supreme Court believes that any method of punishment related to the fundamental right of life should be fair and appropriate. Therefore, the Supreme Court had come to the conclusion that according to Article 21 of the Indian Constitution, a limited oral hearing is required in all the cases of hanging. Due to this, the right to file a review petition is an important privilege given to the persons obtained.