SC Commutes Death Penalty In Kidnap-Cum-Murder Case [Read Order]

The Supreme Court last week ‘altered’ death sentence awarded to a murder convict to ‘life imprisonment’.The bench of Justice NV Ramana, Justice Mohan M Shantanagoudar and Justice MR Shah set aside the death penalty imposed on Swapan Kumar Jha in a short order stating that a reasoned order will follow. The same bench had, on the previous day, passed a similar ‘reasoned order...