Chhattisgarh court sentences man to death for brutal killing of 4-year-old
The convict, driven by unrequited obsession, abducted the child, doused him in petrol, and set him ablaze to exact revenge against the boy's mother.
The convict, driven by unrequited obsession, abducted the child, doused him in petrol, and set him ablaze to exact revenge against the boy's mother.
Additional Sessions Judge (First) Pawan Kumar Sharma on Friday sentenced two convicts to death for the murder of the woman along with her one son and two daughters. They were declared guilty two days ago.
A court here on Thursday handed death sentence to a person for killing his wife and seriously injuring 6-year-old daughter by slitting her throat following a dispute with his spouse over monetary issues.
Terming the murder case as the 'rarest of rare' crimes, the Additional District Judge Court-2 held Sanjit Dash guilty and pronounced the death sentence on the basis of circumstantial, material, and medico-legal evidence.
A division bench comprising Justice PB Suresh Kumar and Justice Johnson John converted the death sentence imposed on Nino Mathew to life imprisonment and ordered that he shall not be entitled to remission for a period of 25 years.
The woman's counsel, Muhammad Ramzan, had argued that the suspect was of unsound mind at the time of occurrence
On April 15, 2019, when the minor was at home alone with her grandmother, Thakur, 26, from the same village, entered the house and raped the teen.
“His retrial and subsequent sentence were arbitrary,” the Canadian ambassador to Beijing Dominic Barton said
On July 17, 2019, the ICJ ruled that Pakistan must review the death sentence given to Kulbhushan Jadhav.
Earlier, the Supreme Court today rejected the plea of convict Mukesh Singh, seeking restoration of all his legal remedies alleging that his earlier lawyers misled him.
