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    Punjab to introduce death penalty for fatality due to spurious liquor

    The decision was taken in the wake of recent hooch tragedies

    The Punjab government on Monday decided to amend its excise act, introducing the death penalty in cases where people die after consuming spurious liquor.

    The decision was taken by the Punjab Cabinet on Monday in the wake of a hooch tragedy in the districts of Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Tarn Taran, where several lives were lost due to the consumption of spurious liquor in July last year.

    The Bill in this regard will be introduced in the ongoing Budget Session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, according to a government release, which said the aim is to instil fear of law among the offenders and impose stiff punishment.

    A new Section 61-A has been inserted in Punjab Excise Act, 1914, according to which in case of death, the guilty shall be punished with death or imprisonment for life and shall also be liable to fine which may extend up to Rs 20 lakh.

    In case of disability or grievous hurt, the guilty will be punished with imprisonment for at least six years extendable up to life imprisonment and with fine which may extend to Rs 10 lakh.

    Likewise, any other consequential injury is caused to a person, the guilty shall be punished with the imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year and fine which may extend to Rs 5 lakh, and in case of no injury caused to a person, the guilty shall be punished with imprisonment, which may extend to six months and fine up to Rs 2.50 lakh.

    The Cabinet also made a provision to provide compensation to the kin of the victim by the manufacturer and seller of spurious liquor.

    According to the Section 61-A (2) (i), the court may order if it satisfied that death or injury has been caused to any person due to consumption of liquor sold in any place, order the manufacturer and seller, whether or not he is convicted of an offence, to pay by way of compensation, an amount not less than Rs 5 lakh to the legal representatives of each deceased or Rs 3 lakh to the person to whom grievous hurt has been caused, or Rs 50,000 to the person for any other consequential injury.

    Provided that where the liquor is sold in a licensed shop, the liability to pay the compensation under this section shall be on the licensee and further that no appeal can be filed by the accused unless the amount ordered to be paid under this section is deposited by him in the court.

    The Section 63 has also been amended to enhance the term of imprisonment in the existing provisions of the Act from one year to three years and amount of fine up to Rs 1,000 to 10,000 for the offence of alteration or attempt to alteration of denatured spirit.

    Likewise, the cabinet also gave approval to amend Section 61 (1) to enhance the term of imprisonment from three years to five years under the chapter 'Offences and Penalties' of the Act for unlawful import, export, transport, manufacture and possession etc. of any intoxicant.

    (source: theweek.in)
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    Court sentences man to death for brutal murder of wife, 3 children in Rajasthan

    A local court in Rajasthan''s Jhalawar district on Wednesday handed the death penalty to a man for the brutal murder of his wife and three young children in 2019 by poisoning and later slitting their throats, officials said.
    The upper district and sessions court in Bhawanimandi town of Jhalawar district convicted 48-year-old Shakir Lakhara, a resident of Dhabla Khinchi village of Sunel area in Jhalawar district, to death by hanging, public prosecutor Lokesh Gupta said.

    The convict, allegedly beset by debt and prone to gambling, had poisoned his wife Jahida, daughters Muskan (14), Alfia (12) and 10-year-old son Alfez at his home on October 8, 2019. Realising that they had not died, Shakir used a sharp weapon and slashed their throats leading to the death of his family members, the public prosecutor added.

    Shakir had escaped from the spot after the murder and was arrested over a month later on November 14, 2019. The man was booked under IPC Section 302 (punishment for murder) among others and kept under judicial custody, Gupta further said.

    Terming the crime as heinous in the institution of a family, Upper District and Sessions Court Judge Prabhat Agrawal held Shakir guilty under Section 302 and other sections of IPC and awarded him death penalty by hanging, Gupta said.

    He added that the statements of at least 32 witnesses were recorded before the court during the trial and 55 documents were produced.

    (source: outlookindia.com)

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    2016 Bihar hooch tragedy | Nine get death sentence; life term for four

    By Amarnath Tewar
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    19 died and six others lost their eyesight after consuming illicit liquor in August 2016, four months after the imposition of prohibition.

    Nine persons were sentenced to death and four women to life imprisonment by Gopalganj Additional District Judge-2 Luv Kush Kumar on Friday after they were convicted in the Khajurbanni locality hooch tragedy.

    Nineteen people died and six others lost their eyesight in August 2016 after consuming illicit liquor in dry Bihar.

    “Fourteen persons had been named accused in the case. One of them died during trial,” said Special Public Prosecutor Ravi Bhushan Srivastava.

    Those sentenced to death in the case are Chhathu Pasi, Kanhaiya Pasi, Nagina Pasi, Lalbabu Pasi, Rajesh Kumar, Sanoj Kumar Pasi, Sanjay Pasi, Ranjit Chaudhary and Munna Chaudhary. The women convicts are Laljhari Devi, Kailasho Devi, Indu Devi and Rita Devi.

    The State government had announced ₹4 lakh compensation to members of the victims’ family. Along with main accused Nagina Pasi, 13 others were named as accused persons in the case.

    As soon as the court pronounced the sentences, most of the accused persons and their family members began wailing.

    “We will approach to Patna High Court against the judgment,” said Ved Prakash Tiwari, the lawyer representing the accused persons.

    In June 2020, 21 policemen — three Sub-Inspectors, five Assistant Sub-Inspectors and 13 Constables — were dismissed in connection with the hooch tragedy, which struck months after Bihar was declared a dry State.

    Four months after the Bihar government enforced the new Excise and Prohibition Act, 2016, banning trade and consumption of liquor in the State, 19 people died in the Khajurbanni locality under Manjha block of Gopalganj district after consuming illicit countrymade liquor. Six others lost their eye-sight. Later, a raid conducted by the police in Khajurbanni led to recovery of over 1,000 litres of alcohol hidden underground. Nagina Pasi was named the main accused in the case. The district administration had even imposed “collective fine” on the locality in a bid to deter residents from continuing with liquor brewing.

    The Khajurbanni locality in Gopalganj town is inhabited mostly by Extremely Backward and Other Backward Class people.

    https://www.thehindu.com/news/nation...le33997424.ece
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    24-yr-old man gets death for rape, murder of 5-yr-old boy

    Special Pocso judge Vijay Laxmi Vihan also awarded four years of imprisonment to the father of the accused and three years to his mother for concealing the crime, Vikas Gupta, special assistant district government counsel, said.

    Hindustan Times

    A 24-year-old man has been awarded death penalty for sodomising and murdering a 5-year-old boy in Uttarakhand’s US Nagar district in 2019.

    Special Pocso judge Vijay Laxmi Vihan also awarded four years of imprisonment to the father of the accused and three years to his mother for concealing the crime, Vikas Gupta, special assistant district government counsel, said.

    “Pocso court awarded a man a death sentence on Saturday for sodomising and later murdering a minor in Rudrapur in February 2019,” Gupta said.

    The incident took place in Transit Camp Colony of Rudrapur on February 19, 2019, when the boy went missing, Gupta said. On February 21, his parents filed a missing complaint with the Transit camp police.

    In his complaint, Gupta said, the relative alleged that a neighbor was spotted on the roof of the house on the night the child went missing. The relative said that he saw the neighbor trying to open the lid of the water tank but fled on being spotted, Gupta said.

    The neighbour was taken into custody and during interrogation he confessed to the crime, Gupta said. A post-mortem report revealed that the child was sodomised and strangled to death, he added.

    https://www.hindustantimes.com/india...13618-amp.html

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    Uttar Pradesh: POCSO Court in Bulandshahr awards death penalty to three in gang-rape, murder case

    By Srawan Shukla
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    A POCSO Court in Bulandshahr awarded death sentence to three youth for kidnapping, gang-rape and murder of a minor girl student returning from a New Year party on January 2, 2018.

    The POCSO Court said that it was a rarest of rare case of criminal act and death sentence is the minimum punishment. “If girl students are subjected to such crimes then there will be no meaning of government’s ‘beti padao beti bachao abhiyan,” the court observed while awarding death penalty to the three accused.

    The incident was reported on January 2, 2018, when a girl student, a resident of Chandpur, was returning home after celebrating New Year at her coaching institute on a bicycle. She was kidnapped by three youth Julfiqar, Dilshad and Isreal in a car.

    They raped her by turns in the moving car and when the girl started shouting for help she was strangled to death with her dupatta. They threw her body in Dadri in Noida and fled. Her body was recovered by the police on January 4, 2018.

    The gang-rape and murder had rocked the state and the police had cracked the case within ten days after arresting the three accused. During interrogation, they had admitted their crime.

    The trial went on for almost two years and the POCSO Court accepted the police charge-sheet for kidnapping, gang-rape and murder and awarded death sentence to Julfiqar, Dilshad and Israel on Wednesday.

    Family members of the deceased said that they were satisfied with the court verdict. “My daughter finally got justice. We want to see them hanged,” said her parents. The counsels for the accused said that they will appeal in the higher court against the court verdict.

    https://www.freepressjournal.in/indi...pe-murder-case

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    AP court sentences 11 notorious highway killers to death

    Ongole District Court in Andhra Pradesh sentenced a notorious highway serial killer Munna and ten other gang members to death on Monday.

    The gang used to stop vehicles on the highway posing as police officers and then killed the occupants. The district court found 18 people guilty for being involved in four such cases during 2018. Eleven have been sentenced to death and remaining to life and shorter jail terms.

    All the accused were found guilty of murdering seven persons in four cases in Ongole District. After killing lorry driver Ramasekhar and cleaner Perumal Subramani near Ulavapadu, the gang sold the 21.7 tons of iron in the lorry to a leading merchant in Guntur.

    The bodies of the driver and cleaner from Tamil Nadu were packed in gunny bags and buried on the banks of Inumanamelluru Gundlakammavagu in Kukki Maddipadu Mandal near Parkasham in Andhra Pradesh.

    After a complaint was lodged on October 17, 2008, by Veerappan Kuppuswamy, the lorry owner, whose 21.7 tons of iron was looted, the police swung into action, initially thinking that the driver and cleaner had stolen the goods.

    The police started on an investigative trail from Durgapur in West Bengal and, in the process, discovered that it was around Ongole that one gang of Syed Abdul Samad alias Munna gang was operative.

    During the trial, the police told the court that Munna tried to make preparations to flee the country. However, before he could do so, the police arrested him in the farmhouse of a former MLA in Karnataka and brought him to Ongole. The police investigation found that the Munna gang, disguised as policemen, used to stop vehicles on the highway under the pretext of checking.

    All accused gang members confessed to various acts of crime and after the trial, the court sentenced 11 people to death for murder and looted on the highway. The court had found all gang members guilty, but based on the charge sheet Munna and ten others were sentenced to death, life sentence has been given to four and seven years each to remaining.

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    Man Who Killed Mother Then Fried Her Organs Is Sentenced to Death

    A man in the western Indian city of Kolhapur was convicted and sentenced to death for murdering his mother in cold blood, and then frying her organs with an intention to eat them.

    Sunil Rama Kuchkoravi’s alleged crime has triggered horror and shock in the city of 800,000.

    According to the case details, a blood-drenched Kuchkoravi was found next to his mother’s body on August 28, 2017, by an eight-year-old neighbour who then alerted the town. Yallava, the mother, was seen naked and with her liver, intestines and heart disembowelled. The heart was kept on a plate, while a piece of her rib was in an oil bottle along with chilli powder and salt.

    “After the incident, the accused intended to eat the heart and rib of his own mother,” stated the court order, adding that the 35-year-old accused had planned to get rid of the evidence.

    Judges at the local court termed it as the “rarest of rare cases'' – a controversial criteria of crime that merits the death sentence.

    India is one of 56 countries – including China, Saudi Arabia, the U.S. and Singapore – that enforce capital punishment, while 142 others have abolished it. Since 2000, India has had eight executions, and 404 convicts are currently on death row.

    On July 8, the local court found Kuchkoravi guilty of murder under the Indian Penal Code and sentenced him to death. The verdict is subject to confirmation by the high court in Mumbai.

    The forensic report on the Kuchkoravi incident said there were two injuries on the victim’s private parts. The court stated that the act of undressing his own mother and inflicting fatal injuries on her without “any pain or showing mercy” is “an ultimate insult to motherhood” and “against society at large.”

    “[The crime] left a large impact on the psychology of the society,” said the court order, adding that the murder was “premeditated and cold-blooded”.

    The motive for the crime was money, the police investigation revealed.

    “The present accused not only brutally killed his mother but made her naked and inflicted blows... over her private part, cut down her breast, removed her heart and other parts of body, and was prepared to eat it,” said the court order.

    “The intensity and the shamelessness of the act of present accused... demand the capital punishment.”

    Kuchkoravi moved in with his mother after his wife left him because of his alcoholism. Unemployed, he had a history of harassing his wife over alcohol and money.

    Kuchkoravi’s lawyer VD Lambhore pleaded insanity in his client’s defence, telling the court he was addicted to alcohol.

    “The offence is committed by the accused under the influence of liquor,” Lambhore said in a statement, adding that a medical certificate that proves it is the “missing link” in the chain of events.

    “[The accused] was not in a position to understand the nature of his act,” Lambhore claimed.

    Kuchkoravi’s family will appeal the verdict before the high court, the lawyer added.

    There were no eyewitnesses to the crime, and the court order was based on circumstantial evidence. Two knives and a machete-style chopper covered in blood were recovered from the crime scene.

    Investigating officer SS More told reporters this was “the most cruel” of all the murder cases he has handled.

    At the moment, the police district superintendent announced a monetary reward for the cops who saw through the case, and imposed a fine of INR 25,000 ($334) on Kuchkoravi.

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    ’Brought shame to humanity’: Man sentenced to death for rape, murder of 3-yr-old

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    RAIPUR: A Chhattisgarh fast track special court awarded death penalty to a man convicted for raping and killing a three-and-half-year-old girl in Rajnandgaon district last year, a crime that the judge said had brought ‘shame to humanity’.

    Additional sessions judge Shailesh Sharma convicted Shekhar Korram (28) under section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code and provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, special public prosecutor Parvez Akhtar said.

    The special court, notified under the POCSO Act, delivered its verdict on Monday. Its details were, however, made available on Tuesday.

    Apart from the death penalty, the court also sentenced the 28-year-old to rigorous imprisonment for seven years each under IPC sections 363 (kidnapping) and 201 (causing disappearance of the offence), and 10 years under IPC section 366 (kidnapping or abducting a woman to compel her for marriage or to cause her defilement), the prosecutor said.

    “The offence is of a heinous nature and the accused deserves no leniency. The accused has committed a crime which brings shame to humanity. There is no possibility of any reformation and rehabilitation of the accused in the society,” sessions judge Sharma said in his verdict.

    Punishing the accused with such harsh punishment will strengthen the faith of society and the relatives of the deceased on the court, and in future, those who commit such heinous crimes will not be spared under any circumstances,” the court said.

    On August 22, 2020, the accused abducted the girl, a resident of his native village in Rajnandgaon district, while she was playing near her house. The man took the girl to his house, where he raped her and later smothered her to death with a pillow cover, the prosecutor said.

    https://www.hindustantimes.com/india...16622-amp.html
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    62.2 pc death row prisoners diagnosed with at least one mental illness: Study

    The Week

    A study on the mental illness and intellectual disability among death row prisoners has shown that over 62 per cent had at least one mental illness, half of them contemplated suicide in jail and experienced adverse childhood and traumatic life experiences.

    Project 39A, a criminal justice program at the National Law University Delhi, conducted a study on 88 death row prisoners, three female, and 85 male, and their families across Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, and Madhya Pradesh.

    The findings of the study titled "Deathworthy: A mental Health Perspective of the Death Penalty" presented empirical data on mental illness and intellectual disability among death row prisoners in India and the psychological consequences of living on death row.

    The report which was released after five years of research also established correlations between conditions of incarceration and ill-health.

    The report stated that it was found that an "overwhelming" majority of death row prisoners interviewed -- 62.2 per cent, had a mental illness and 11 per cent had an intellectual disability.

    This proportion is overwhelmingly higher than the proportion in the community population, it said.

    51 death row prisoners (62.2 per cent) were diagnosed with at least one mental illness. 35.3 per cent were diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MMD), 22.6 per cent were diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety Disorder and 6.8 per cent screened positive for psychosis, the report said.

    On Wednesday, speaking at a panel discussion organized to mark the release of the report, Justice S Muralidhar, Chief Justice of Orissa High Court, said that sentencing should be a socio-legal exercise and take into account a 360 degree understanding of the victim's perspective, the victim's family perspective, history and the wider impact of the society at large.

    This report tries to show us that even the accused are, in a way, victims, he further said.

    The study showed that 19 out of the 88 prisoners who were interviewed were ultimately acquitted and the sentence of 33 prisoners was commuted to various terms of life imprisonment.

    13 out of the 19 prisoners who are now acquitted were diagnosed with at least one mental illness, three had attempted suicide in prison. Of the 30 prisoners diagnosed with depression, 17 are now no more on death row, Maitreyi Misra, the lead author of the study, stated in the report.

    The report added, Of the 34 prisoners who had been at risk of suicide, 20 are not on death row anymore. Half of those who were actively contemplating suicide around the time of the interview is not on death row anymore.

    Almost 9 out of 83 death row prisoners were diagnosed with intellectual disability. Over 75 percent of prisoners were found to have deficits in intellectual functioning.

    While international law prohibits the imposition of the death sentence on persons with mental disabilities, in the case of these nine prisoners, their disability was not even brought to the attention of the courts, Misra added.

    Besides this, 34 death row prisoners, over 50 per cent, out of the 63 prisoners who volunteered information on suicidal behaviour and ideation spoke about contemplating suicide at least once in prison.

    According to the report, one man spent 14 years on death row in solitary confinement and reported having heard voices, seen a goddess, and even attempted to kill himself.

    Eight prisoners had attempted suicide in prison, the study stated, adding that these numbers and proportions are alarmingly high when compared to the proportion of those at high risk of suicide among the general prison population and in the community.

    The study also showed that the death row prisoners suffered from childhood abuse, neglect, and disturbed family environments.

    Among the 88 prisoners interviewed, the cascading effect of poverty was clear. 46 prisoners were physically or verbally abused as children, 64 were neglected, and 73 prisoners grew up in disturbed family environments. 46 prisoners had less than 10 years of education, 28 had early onset of substance abuse. 73 prisoners had experienced three or more adverse experiences, the report finds.

    Over 56 prisoners experienced three or more potentially traumatic experiences like natural disasters, physical abuse, accidents, the report said adding that prisoners who were diagnosed with a current episode of MDD reported experiencing more traumatic life events than those who were not diagnosed.

    It further stated that death row prisoners are treated as a separate class of prisoners and, more often than not, the violence and alienation are directly linked to their belonging to this separate class -- the living dead.

    It stated that the families of death row prisoners go through this punishment as well, who are assumed to be guilty by association and are left behind to face the wrath and collective condemnation of society.

    Not knowing whether their loved one is going to live or die, families deal with this 'ambiguous loss' without being able to grieve openly because who, after all, would mourn the loss of a death row prisoner. Their 'disenfranchised grief' remains unexpressed and unvalidated, the report added.

    https://www.theweek.in/news/health/2...-mental-i.html
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    I’m part Indian myself and it has nothing to do with liberal politicians there. It’s just that the country has always been favorable to criminals. India has some of the top law enforcement corruption of any country. India itself has been swept with very right wing politics since 2014. Until we clear the shady law enforcement practices there the death will just remain symbolic.

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