85-year-old Swamy Shraddananda, jailed for murdering his wife in 1991, seeks mercy citing age and illness. Supreme Court lists the plea after 12 weeks for Centre’s response.
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.