Majority Of Citizens Don't Want Judiciary To Show Any Sympathy To Rape & Murder Convicts: Madras HC [Read Judgment]

Ashok Kini

15 March 2019 8:30 AM IST

"We are shocked by the savagery of the offence unleashed by the accused towards the deceased. Such conduct of the accused would only show that he is an extremist and that he will be a menace to the society."

The Madras High Court has confirmed death sentence to a man accused of brutal murder of a love couple. The prosecution case against Kattavellai @ Devakar was that he threatened the couple with an aruval and demanded that the jewels worn by the girl be entrusted to him. When they refused to part with the jewel, the accused cut both side of the neck of boy with aruval and brutally murdered...

Majority Of Citizens Don't Want Judiciary To Show Any Sympathy To Rape & Murder Convicts: Madras HC [Read Judgment]

Ashok Kini

"We are shocked by the savagery of the offence unleashed by the accused towards the deceased. Such conduct of the accused would only show that he is an extremist and that he will be a menace to the society."

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