Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday travelled the loss of life penalty of a male to life behind bars for eliminating a feminine and a two-year-old girl in 2017.
A bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Shyam Chandak supported the sentence of Deepak Jath but minimized his loss of life 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 said.
The HC was listening to an attraction submitted by the State federal authorities on the lookout for verification of the loss of life penalty ofJath A loss of life penalty will be carried out simply after the excessive court docket verifies the very same.
Accused Convicted
In 2023, a classes court docket based responsible Jath and punished him to fatality claiming that the legal offense devoted by him drops underneath the rarest of bizarre classification.
According to the prosecution, in April 2017, Jath put some fluid on 2 girls, a 17-year-old girl, and a two-year-old girl, and lit them ablaze inBandra The 2 handed away due to shed accidents. Jath had beforehand eve-teased the 17-year-old girl and was bugged when he was suggested for the very same.
In his help, Jath advised that he was bugged with the women as they’d really referred to as him “hijda and chakka”.
