New Delhi: Cruelty to crime cannot be the only criteria for death sentence and rewarding conditions, which should also be considered socio-economic background and psychological state guilty, the Supreme Court has sentenced to death of two convicts in two separate cases. This condemned him without the possibility of spending the rest of his life in jail.Although both cases were honored by the trial court and the High Court, a bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sanjay Karol and Sandeep Mehta appreciated the sentences and sentenced them to life with the condition that they had to die in jail.In one case, the convict of Ballari district in Karnataka killed his wife, three children and sister -in -law in 2017 that he was not a biological father of children and was born of infidelity. In the second case, a daily wage earner raped and strangled a 10 -year -old girl in Dehradun in 2018.The court said that in both cases, the trial court and HC decided to punish the crime on a barbaric and cruel way and were not considered to reduce the circumstances. “The courts below have commented on the cruelty to the crime in question to hand over the death penalty to the appellant only. No other situation has been discussed by the courts that the case becomes a part of the ‘rare rare’ category. In our view, such an approach cannot be maintained, ”said this.
