An Indian lady sentenced to death in Abu Dhabi in the murder of a four-month-old kid was carried out on 15 February, weeks before her household and the Indian embassy was formally notified, the Delhi High Court was informed on Monday.
Shahzadi Khan, 33, had actually remained in custody given that 10 February 2023 before being founded guilty and sentenced to death on 31 July that year. She was held at Al Wathba jail, where she was carried out last month.
The discovery about her execution came throughout a court hearing on Monday following a plea submitted by Khan’s daddy, Shabbir Khan, who had actually inquired about her legal status and wellness.
” It is over. She was carried out on 15 February. Her last rites will be hung on 5 March,” extra lawyer basic Chetan Sharma notified the court. Justice Sachin Datta explained the advancement as “really regrettable”.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) verified that the Indian embassy had actually supplied legal assistance, consisting of sending grace petitions and pardon demands to the UAE federal government. Nevertheless, the nation’s greatest court, the Court of Cassation, maintained the death sentence, and UAE authorities formally alerted the Indian embassy of the execution on 28 February.
Mr Khan, a local of Banda district in Uttar Pradesh, stated he had actually had a hard time for clearness on his child’s fate, as he blasted the Indian federal government for not taking adequate effort.
In his plea before the court, he specified: “The petitioner, with substantial effort, sent an application dated February 21, 2025 to the Ministry of External Affairs, looking for to establish the present legal status of his child and verify whether she lives or has actually been carried out.”
“I attempted a lot with the Indian federal government[to help reverse the judgment] I had actually been running around given that in 2015,” Mr Khan informed journalism Trust of India. “We did not have the cash to go there[Abu Dhabi] The attorneys were pricey and the federal government did not support us. They hanged her on 15 February and there was no news from MEA. I had a number on which I called and the lady who spoke with me informed me my child disappeared,” he stated.
He has actually now asked for the federal government to organize his travel to Abu Dhabi to attend his child’s last rites. Previously on 14 February, Mr Khan stated, he got a “telephone call from my cherished child who while sobbing on phone informed me she has actually been notified about her execution”.
“A captain visited me today, and I have actually been separated. He informed me I have no time at all left,” she stated.
Khan was supposedly tricked by a scammer and trafficked to Abu Dhabi in December 2021 before being linked in the death of a baby, a criminal activity she emphatically rejected devoting.
The kid, Mr Khan declares, passed away on 7 December 2022, hours after getting regular vaccinations. Her legal group argued that she had actually been pushed into a confession and was improperly represented throughout her trial, as Khan’s household preserved her innocence.
According to Abu Dhabi court submissions seen by The Independent, Khan asphyxiated the baby on the “spur of the minute”. She was mad with her companies over “mistreatment and nondelivery of incomes”, the court was informed throughout the trial, and she got her disappointment on their kid.
Previously, her daddy informed The Independent, he had actually composed president Droupadi Murmu and prime minister Narendra Modi to step in and protect clemency for his child.
Her attorney, Ali Mohammad, criticised the judicial procedure, declaring that Khan’s execution totaled up to an “extrajudicial killing under the guise of legal procedures”. He stated efforts to appeal the sentence were not successful, with a last rejection in February 2024 regardless of substantial paperwork challenging the conviction.
“We composed to the Indian Embassy, the Prime Minister’s Workplace and the Ministry of External Affairs, advising them to take the matter forward. However what occurred in the end, we can not state,” he informed India Today.
“We approached the Prime Minister’s Workplace and the Ministry of External Affairs once again on February 21, however no info was supplied. After 2 to 3 days, we submitted a writ petition in court, and today, we got main verification that she has actually been carried out. Her last rites will be carried out in Abu Dhabi on 5 March,” he stated.