Facing immense mental agony, grant me permission for euthanasia: Gyanvapi woman petitioner writes to President
Earlier, Vishen told The Indian Express that the “claim for the Gyanvapi mosque has been lost due to some vested interests.”
The announcement by Vishen on Saturday came days after fresh fissures emerged among the Hindu petitioners of the Gyanvapi cases after the Varanasi district court’s order on May 23 pertaining to consolidating all the seven related suits and hearing them together. (express photo) DAYS AFTER Vishwa Vedic Sanathan Sangh chief Jitender Singh Vishen said that he and his family members would no longer pursue the Gyanvapi-Kashi Vishwanath temple cases, his niece Rakhi Singh, who was a plaintiff in the lead petition, wrote an open letter to the President of India seeking permission to euthanize herself.
In the letter released on Tuesday, Rakhi Singh wrote, “You are requested to pave the way for me to get rid of this immense mental pain and agony by granting me the permission for euthanasia so that I can attain ultimate peace by sleeping eternally.”In the letter, she has also said that she would wait for the President’s reply till June 9 and if no response is received till then, the decision would be hers.
The announcement by Vishen on Saturday came days after fresh fissures emerged among the Hindu petitioners of the Gyanvapi cases after the Varanasi district court’s order on May 23 pertaining to consolidating all the seven related suits and hearing them together.
In her open letter, Rakhi Singh wrote that the other four petitioners in the case – Sita Sahu, Laxmi Devi, Manju Vyas, Rekha Pathak and their lawyer Hari Shankar Jain and his son Vishnu Jain – have defamed her, along with her uncle Vishen and his wife Kiran Singh.
She has also claimed that by levelling “false allegations,” these people “have projected me as a traitor in front of the Hindu community.”
Earlier, Vishen told The Indian Express that the “claim for the Gyanvapi mosque has been lost due to some vested interests.”
On Vishen’s allegations that the cause of Gyanvapi would be lost because of the consolidation of cases, advocate Hari Shankar Jain, who is representing the other four women in the petition, had said, “That is his understanding. As a lawyer, I have a different understanding than him… He does not know the first thing about the law. Everyone has a right to have an opinion… I only do my work. I don’t say anything about anyone… I am working for the cause of Hindutva and I am doing the best for my cases.”
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