Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday travelled the death penalty of a male to life behind bars for eliminating a female and a two-year-old woman in 2017.
A bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Shyam Chandak supported the sentence of Deepak Jath yet minimized his death penalty to life jail time.
Observation Made By The Bench
“We have held that the case does not fall under the category of rarest of rare. The penalty of death is not the only penalty that can be imposed in this case,” the bench stated.
The HC was listening to an appeal submitted by the State federal government looking for verification of the death penalty ofJath A death penalty can be performed just after the high court verifies the exact same.
Accused Convicted
In 2023, a sessions court founded guilty Jath and punished him to fatality claiming that the criminal offense dedicated by him drops under the rarest of unusual classification.
According to the prosecution, in April 2017, Jath put some fluid on 2 ladies, a 17-year-old woman, and a two-year-old woman, and lit them ablaze inBandra The 2 passed away because of shed injuries. Jath had previously eve-teased the 17-year-old woman and was bugged when he was advised for the exact same.
In his support, Jath suggested that he was bugged with the ladies as they had actually called him “hijda and chakka”.
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