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NEW DELHI: Brutality of offence cannot be the sole criterion to award death punishment and mitigating circumstances, including socio-economic background and psychological state of the convict, must also be considered, Supreme Court has said while commuting the death sentence of two convicts in two different cases. It condemned them to spend the rest of their…
SRINAGAR: J&K high court recently acquitted a man sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly murdering his wife in 2012, citing major flaws in the investigation and granting him benefit of the doubt.The division bench overturned the 2015 conviction by principal sessions judge of Udhampur, ruling that the prosecution’s case was riddled with inconsistencies, unreliable evidence,…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday granted three-month furlough to Sukhdev Pehalwan, convicted in the Nitish Katara murder case, after noting that he had already spent 20 years in jail against his sentence of life imprisonment for 20 years without remission.As the legal issue is still pending before the SC on whether a prisoner, who…
