In Brief
The Supreme Court considered whether the death sentence for murdering three sleeping minor children and injuring others should stand. While confirming the conviction, the Court found the case did not qualify as 'rarest of rare'—the highest threshold for capital punishment under Indian law. Considering the accused was not a hardened criminal and the crime arose from a matrimonial dispute, the Court commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment without remission (lasting until natural death), making clear the prisoner would not be eligible for parole. The appeals were partly allowed.
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