<p>Jasvir Singh and his wife Sonia, who kidnapped and murdered 16-year-old Harry Verma for ransom at Hoshiarpur in 2005, are currently lodged in separate wings of the jail.<br />Singh has been given the death sentence while Sonia has received a life-term for the crime.<br /><br />The couple now wants a common cell so that they can have a child before Jasvir is hanged to death.<br /><br />However, Ravi Verma, the father of the teenager has challenged the couple's petition in the High Court.<br /><br />"When we had come to know that the culprits have filed a petition in the High Court through their father, seeking conjugal rights to have a child, we have moved the High Court. We will fight it tooth and nail," Verma said.<br /><br />"Why do they want to have a child? They have destroyed my family. They have killed my son. Now they are worried about their family," he said.<br /><br />The High Court has appointed an amicus curiae to assist the court arrive at a decision.<br />Gursharan Kaur Mann, counsel for Jasvir and Sonia, said that the right to procreate survives in imprisonment also.<br /><br />Even if the person has been sentenced to death, his rights will remain same, Mann said.<br />Besides Jasvir and Sonia their accomplice Vikram Walia, was also given death sentence by the Hoshirapur district and sessions court in December.<br /><br />The Supreme Court had reduced Sonia's sentence to life-term.The couple had been married for eight months when they kidnapped Harry in a car on February 14, 2005, while he was on his way to school.<br /><br />Harry's abductors had demanded a ransom of Rs 50 lakh. But even as negotiations were on, his naked body was dumped near Adampur town, 20 km from Hoshiarpur.<br />Walia, who had masterminded the crime and knew the boy's family well even met Harry's father after the abduction.<br /><br />Police, who tracked the boy's kidnappers to an isolated house on the outskirts of the town, could only recover his body later from another spot.<br /><br />He had already died after his abductors injected an overdose of a tranquilliser into him.<br />They dumped his body, but continued the ransom drama till police caught up with them.</p>
<p>Jasvir Singh and his wife Sonia, who kidnapped and murdered 16-year-old Harry Verma for ransom at Hoshiarpur in 2005, are currently lodged in separate wings of the jail.<br />Singh has been given the death sentence while Sonia has received a life-term for the crime.<br /><br />The couple now wants a common cell so that they can have a child before Jasvir is hanged to death.<br /><br />However, Ravi Verma, the father of the teenager has challenged the couple's petition in the High Court.<br /><br />"When we had come to know that the culprits have filed a petition in the High Court through their father, seeking conjugal rights to have a child, we have moved the High Court. We will fight it tooth and nail," Verma said.<br /><br />"Why do they want to have a child? They have destroyed my family. They have killed my son. Now they are worried about their family," he said.<br /><br />The High Court has appointed an amicus curiae to assist the court arrive at a decision.<br />Gursharan Kaur Mann, counsel for Jasvir and Sonia, said that the right to procreate survives in imprisonment also.<br /><br />Even if the person has been sentenced to death, his rights will remain same, Mann said.<br />Besides Jasvir and Sonia their accomplice Vikram Walia, was also given death sentence by the Hoshirapur district and sessions court in December.<br /><br />The Supreme Court had reduced Sonia's sentence to life-term.The couple had been married for eight months when they kidnapped Harry in a car on February 14, 2005, while he was on his way to school.<br /><br />Harry's abductors had demanded a ransom of Rs 50 lakh. But even as negotiations were on, his naked body was dumped near Adampur town, 20 km from Hoshiarpur.<br />Walia, who had masterminded the crime and knew the boy's family well even met Harry's father after the abduction.<br /><br />Police, who tracked the boy's kidnappers to an isolated house on the outskirts of the town, could only recover his body later from another spot.<br /><br />He had already died after his abductors injected an overdose of a tranquilliser into him.<br />They dumped his body, but continued the ransom drama till police caught up with them.</p>