A 33-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh, Banda, was convicted to death in the UAE for the murder of a four-month-old infant who was under her protection after being administered a vaccination.
Shahzadi Khan, a 33-year-old Uttar Pradesh woman who was on death row in the United Arab Emirates, was put to death on 15 February in the Gulf state, the government told the Delhi High Court on Monday.
Shahzadi Khan was charged with the murder of a four-month-old child who was under her care. She was a caregiver working in Abu Dhabi when the event happened in December 2022. The child passed away after undergoing routine vaccinations, and Shahzadi was charged with the death.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) informed the court of the execution after Shahzadi’s father went to the Delhi High Court on Saturday and requested a directive to the government to release a bulletin and obtain information about her condition.
The woman from Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district was put to death on February 15, and the government told the court that she would be cremated on March 5. The government said that the External Affairs Ministry received the information on February 28. It is over. She was hanged on February 15. Her last rites will be performed on March 5,” Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma told the court.
The woman’s father had, in a petition, indicated that his daughter had called him on the phone from detention on February 15 to tell him that she had been moved to another location in the facility and that, before her possible execution, she wished to meet her parents once more.
He penned a letter on February 21 to the Ministry of External Affairs, asking that he be informed of his daughter’s current status under the law and whether she was alive or had been killed. Later, he went to the High Court on Saturday with the same question.
The woman arrived in Abu Dhabi in December 2021 after obtaining a legal visa. In August 2022, her employer gave birth to a son, for whom Shahzadi was working as a caregiver. On December 7, 2022, the infant received routine vaccinations and died the same evening. According to Shahzadi’s father’s complaint, despite the hospital recommending a postmortem, the infant’s parents refused and signed a consent letter waiving further investigation.
