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.
It is for the first time in Kerala that so many people have been sentenced to death in a single case.
The court also observed that if taking into consideration the reformation of the convicts after conviction is accepted, then no death penalty can be carried out.
The case is of 2016 when accused Rahul, an auto-rickshaw driver, raped a girl on finding her alone.
AP Singh, convicts' counsel, said that a lot of legal remedies, including the curative petition, are available with the convicts and only after these remedies are exhausted can the execution take place.
Amit Shah's statement is in contrary to reports circulated last month that the Centre has commuted the death sentence of ex-Punjab CM Beant Singh killer, Balwant Singh Rajoana, to life term.
Beant Singh and 16 others were killed in an explosion outside the Civil Secretariat in Chandigarh on August 31, 1995.
