No Room For Sympathy While Sentencing Terror Convicts: SC Restores 7 Yrs Imprisonment For Woman Convicted For Propagating ISIS Ideology [Read Judgment]

Ashok Kini

2 Aug 2019 9:23 PM IST

"The intensity of her participation and involvement were clearly made out. In the circumstances, there was no room for invoking sympathetic considerations"

Disagreeing with Kerala High Court Judgment, the Supreme Court restored the sentence of seven years imprisonment awarded to a woman, Yasmeen, convicted for propagating ISIS Ideology. The bench comprising Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and Justice Indu Malhotra, however, upheld her acquittal from the offences under Section 125 of the Indian Penal Code. The High Court observation that...

No Room For Sympathy While Sentencing Terror Convicts: SC Restores 7 Yrs Imprisonment For Woman Convicted For Propagating ISIS Ideology [Read Judgment]

Ashok Kini

"The intensity of her participation and involvement were clearly made out. In the circumstances, there was no room for invoking sympathetic considerations"

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