The Kerala High Court refused to confirm the trial court's death sentence on finding that the crime could not be categorized as being a "rarest of rare" case, and in view of the rehabilitation prospects of the convict.
A Punjab Court has awarded the death penalty to a 32-year-old woman for burying her neighbour s 2-year-old daughter alive over jealousy and an inferiority complex with the child s family.The convict.
The Punjab & Haryana High Court has modified the conviction of a murder case under Section 302 IPC into culpable homicide not amounting to murder under Section 304 IPC, observing that the fight which.
The Supreme Court was not convinced by the man's argument that he had no intention to kill and that after pouring oil on his wife and starting a fire, he had tried to extinguish the fire by pouring water over her.