Know Thy Judge | Supreme Court of India: Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha
Appointed directly from the Bar as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India, Justice P.S. Narasimha’s tenure as an advocate and as a Judge boasts of several landmark cases.
Death sentence
[Rarest of rare case] Orissa Court awards death sentence to five for chopping hands, legs and committing spine-chilling murder
“The series of inhuman acts involved extreme brutality and exceptional depravity and the crime was committed in an extremely brutal, grotesque, diabolical, revolting and dastardly manner.”
‘Law has more focus on reformatory side’; Tripura HC commutes death sentence to life imprisonment of a man convicted for murdering five people
“The sword of justice given to a Judge has to be exercise with utmost responsibility and judiciously considering the reforms.”
“Sentencing jurisprudence needs to have better clarity without having any ambiguity at any juncture”: Justice UU Lalit
Former CJI Justice UU Lalit released the 8th edition of Ahmad Siddique’s book “Criminology, Penology and Victimology” revised by Advocate Sanjay Vashishtha
Chhattisgarh High Court commutes death sentence of man convicted for killing his parents over ideological differences
“Murder was committed by him by 3 gunshot injuries to each of them, hence no doubt, such heinous crime should be deprecated and no amount of criticism can be given to such gruesome act, that too, of his own father and mother.”
Never Reported Judgement| When Supreme Court denied commutation of death sentence despite passage of significant time since its pronouncement [(1952) 2 SCC 310]
This report covers the Supreme Court’s Never Reported Judgment dating back to the year 1952 on commutation of death sentence.
Supreme Court, in a balancing act, commutes Death Sentence to 20 Years Imprisonment in Indiscriminate Firing case that killed 6
The Supreme Court held that the Court cannot be limited only to two punishments, one a sentence of imprisonment, for all intents and purposes, of not more than 14 years and the other death.
Rajasthan High Court commutes death penalty of a man convicted for rape and murder of 4 and a half-year old girl
“The Trial Court has rightly convicted the accused and we do not find any illegality in the impugned judgment of conviction and therefore, the same deserves to be upheld.”
‘Not rarest of rare case’; Delhi High Court commutes death sentence of man for kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old
Though causing death of someone in itself is perversity, however causing death by smothering and inflicting injuries by jack handle though opined to be consistent with intense torture, cannot be held to be a diabolic or seriously perverse manner of committing murder so as to shock the collective conscience of the society and fall in the category of rarest of rare cases.
[Beant Singh Assassination Case] Supreme Court refuses to commute death penalty of Balwant Singh
The Supreme Court also directed the competent authority to deal with the mercy petition later and take further decision as and when deemed necessary.
Know Thy Judge | Supreme Court of India: Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha
Justice P.S. Narasimha whose tenure as an advocate is full of landmark cases, became the 9th advocate to be directly elevated from the Bar to the Supreme Court judgeship.
Know Thy Judge | Justice Sanjaya Kumar Mishra- The 14th Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court
Former Judge of Uttaranchal High Court, Justice Sanjaya Kumar Mishra was recently elevated as the Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court. At his swearing-in ceremony, Justice Mishra stated that his priority will be to impart justice to the poor and downtrodden while expediting old cases.
Supreme Court commutes death sentence of a rape and murder convict, due to ill-effects of 10 years of solitary confinement
Supreme Court: In appeal against the judgment passed by the Karnataka High Court three-judge bench of Uday Umesh Lalit*, C.J.,
‘Appoint experienced advocates as legal aid counsels’: SC acquits death row convict for want of evidence, finds defence ‘below-average’
The Supreme Court was disappointed with the standard of investigation and the defence put up in a gruesome case relating to murder of wife and 4 children by the accused. The Court observed that while the accused was provided with a legal aid, the cross-examination of each and every witness was below average.
Man rapes and murders a 7-year-old physically and mentally challenged girl; kills fellow inmate after conviction. SC confirms death sentence
“We could only wonder what more of criminal activity would qualify as blemish, if not the involvement and conviction in a case of murder of a fellow jail inmate!”
Psychiatric & Psychological Evaluation of death row convicts| Supreme Court mandates call for mental health report before pronouncing death sentence
“Implicit in this shift is the understanding that the criminal is not a product of only their own decisions, but also a product of the state and society’s failing, which is what entitles the accused to a chance of reformation.”
Whether a Presidential order banning benefit of parole and remission in a mercy petition will create a blanket ban on benefit of furlough? Supreme Court examines
Supreme Court: In a landmark ruling, the Division Bench of Dinesh Maheshwari* and Aniruddha Bose, JJ., reversed Delhi High Court’s judgment holding
Is there a policy rewarding public prosecutors for securing death sentence? Supreme Court asks M.P. government in a Suo Motu case
Supreme Court: The 3-Bench comprising of Uday Umesh Lalit, S. Ravindra Bhat and P.S. Narasimha, JJ., issued notice to Madhya Pradesh government
7-year-old’s “brutal” rape and murder: SC commutes Death sentence; No premature release/remission during 30 years’ LI as “conscience of the society cannot be ignored”
Supreme Court: In a case where a man had brutally raped and murdered a 7-year-old girl, the 3-judge bench of AM Khanwilkar,
Supreme Court January 2022 Roundup: Probe in PM Modi’s Security Lapse; NEET UG/PG Reservation; Suspension of BJP MLAs; and more
“Merit is not solely of one‘s own making. The rhetoric surrounding merit obscures the way in which family, schooling, fortune and a