‘Bombay HC Was Not Justified in Imposing Death Penalty’: Supreme Court Commutes Death Sentence of Watchman Who Killed His Employers in 2007, Restores Trial Court’s Verdict
The Supreme Court bench of Justices BR Gavai, Prashant Kumar Mishra and KV Viswanathan passed the judgement while setting aside the Bombay High Court verdict and restoring the trial court's verdict, imposing a life sentence. The top court passed the order after noting that other accused had been handed down only a life term and not capital punishment.
Today, September 26, the Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of a convict and ex-watchman who had killed his employers in 2007. The Supreme Court bench of Justices BR Gavai, Prashant Kumar Mishra and KV Viswanathan passed the judgement while setting aside the Bombay High Court verdict and restoring the trial court's verdict, imposing a life sentence. The top court passed the order after noting that other accused had been handed down only a life term and not capital punishment. "In any case the role played by the (present) accused is similar with all the other accused ... (he) could not have been segregated from the other accused to impose the separate penalty", the apex court observed. The top court's bench also said that the Bombay High Court was not justified in imposing the death penalty when the trial court had held that the case did not fall into the "rarest of rare category". Senthil Balaji Gets Bail: ‘Very Difficult’ To Hold No PMLA Case Against DMK Leader, Says Supreme Court.
'Accused Could Not Have Been Segregated From the Other Accused'
Supreme Court commutes death sentence of watchman who killed employer
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