Justice Dipankar Datta of the Supreme Court has orally questioned the Court’s practice on death penalty commutations, remarking in a remission matter that the Court’s forgiving nature has to come to an end somewhere. New Delhi: Hearing a remission matter involving a convict in a murder case on Thursday (October 8), Justice Dipankar Datta of […]
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has upheld the conviction of a Ludhiana woman for abducting and murdering her neighbour’s granddaughter, aged under three, by burying her alive, but commuted her death sentence to 30 years’ rigorous imprisonment without remission, holding that she cannot be said to be beyond reform.
The Supreme Court has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence imposed on a man convicted of raping and murdering a six-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh. A Bench of Justice Vikram Nath, Justice Sandeep Mehta and Justice Vijay Bishnoi upheld the conviction but held the case did not warrant the death penalty, applying the ‘rarest of rare’ framework. The detailed reasons are awaited with the judgment.
Susanta Chowdhury’s death sentence for stabbing his ex-girlfriend 45 times was commuted to life imprisonment by the Calcutta High Court, which deemed the case not among the “rarest of rare.” The court imposed a 40-year non-remission term, emphasizing Chowdhury’s potential for reformation due to his youth and absence of prior criminal record.