Bombay HC to decide on commuting death sentence of two sisters convicted for killing children

The state authorities supported granting the dying sentence for the sisters.

A division bench of Justice Nitin M Jamdar and Justice Sarang Kotwal was listening to the sisters’ evaluate plea in search of to commute their dying sentence to life imprisonment stating that there was “inordinate delay” of eight years in deciding mercy plea and execution of their dying sentence.

The sisters had been arrested in November 1996, whereas their mom Anjana, who was additionally a co-accused, had died of sickness within the 12 months 1998.  The sisters had been convicted by the classes courtroom in June 2001 and HC had upheld their conviction in September 2004. In 2006, SC confirmed their dying sentence for 5 murders. In August 2014, the President of India rejected their mercy plea, after which the sisters moved HC in search of judicial evaluate of the President’s determination and sought discount in sentence.

The plea filed by sisters by advocate Aniket Vagal acknowledged that the delay of almost 8 years in deciding on the mercy plea was “unfair, merciless, extreme and arbitrary,” and similar had prompted “immense psychological torture, emotional and bodily agony to them” and their dying sentence be decreased to life imprisonment.

Whereas the bench had concluded listening to within the plea on Saturday December 18, it had raised a question to Chief Public Prosecutor Aruna Pai to make clear the federal government’s place as state has energy of remission (discount) of sentence and it might additionally determine on not granting such remission to any convict.

On Wednesday, Pai submitted that contemplating the seriousness of the crime, regardless of the delay in mercy petition, the state authorities supported the dying sentence and withdrew its alternate submission on “life imprisonment until finish of pure life.”