Bombay High Court commutes death sentence of two men in kidnap-murder case
The Bombay High Court has commuted the death sentences of two men convicted of a 2013 kidnapping and murder to 30 years of imprisonment. The court ruled the crime did not meet the 'rarest of rare' threshold required for capital punishment.
Why it matters
This decision reflects the Indian judiciary's cautious approach to capital punishment and the application of sentencing guidelines.
The Bombay High Court has commuted the death sentence of two men, Chetan Pagare and Aman Jat, to 30 years of rigorous imprisonment without remission for the kidnapping and murder of a 22-year-old engineering student in 2013, holding that the case does not fall within the "rarest of rare" category despite the nature of the crime.
The Bombay High Court has commuted the death sentence of two men to 30 years of rigorous imprisonment without remission for the kidnapping and murder of a young engineering student in Nashik in 2013.
A Division Bench of Justice Bharati Dangre and Justice Manjusha Deshpande held that the act of Chetan Pagare and Aman Jat in kidnapping a boy known to them and killing him after inflicting multiple injuries, while abhorrent, did not meet the threshold for the "rarest of rare" category to warrant capital punishment.
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