‘I’d prefer death to being called a coward': UP judge awards 23rd death sentence
A Muzaffarnagar court has sentenced a man to death for the 2018 murder of his wife, marking the 23rd death sentence issued by the presiding judge in four months. The case has drawn attention due to the high frequency of capital punishment rulings from this specific court.
Why it matters
It highlights ongoing debates regarding judicial sentencing patterns and the legal process for confirming capital punishment in India.
AGRA: A Muzaffarnagar court sentenced a 38-year-old man to death for burning his 23-year-old wife alive after pouring kerosene on her in 2018.The court observed that the manner of the killing was “extremely brutal and barbaric” and placed the case in the “rarest of rare” category.Additional district and sessions judge, Fast Track Court-III, Ravi Kumar Diwakar on Monday awarded the death penalty to Nadeem, a resident of Shahpur, and imposed a fine of Rs 1.5 lakh.It may be mentioned that a total of 97 pending files involving murder and other heinous offences have been recalled from his court of judge Ravi Kumar Diwakar, after it emerged in August that he had awarded death sentences to 22 convicts in 10 cases over four months.The files were returned on the orders of the district and sessions judge Birendra Kumar Singh.The high court can confirm, commute or alter death sentence after examining the…
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