President Droupadi Murmu has dismissed the mercy petition of a person convicted for raping and killing a four-year-old girl in Maharashtra in 2008. According to Rashtrapati Bhavan, this was the primary mercy petition rejected by Murmu after she assumed workplace because the fifteenth President of India on July 25, 2022.
Earlier in May 2017, the Supreme Court had dismissed the assessment petition of Vasanta Sampat Dupare (then 55 years previous) and despatched him to the gallows. On March 28 this 12 months, the President’s secretariat obtained a advice from Union Home Ministry in Dupare’s case.
“The mercy petition was rejected by the President on April 10,” mentioned a press release on the standing of the mercy petition, up to date by the President’s secretariat. In 2017, the Supreme Court had held that “the aggravating circumstances and the barbaric manner in which the four-year-old was killed, clearly outweigh the mitigating circumstances”.
What did Supreme Court say?
While upholding the demise penalty awarded to the convict, the highest court docket had mentioned the rape of a minor girl was “a monstrous burial of her dignity in darkness.” The court docket had referred to the sequence of occasions in the case and mentioned that the convict, who was a neighbour, lured the girl, raped her after which battered her to demise utilizing two heavy stones.
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Top court docket upheld Bombay HC verdict in 2014
The high court docket, on November 26, 2014, upheld the trial court docket’s in addition to the Bombay High Court’s resolution of awarding demise sentence to Maharashtra resident Dupare in the 2008 rape and homicide case.
It had on July 14, 2016, agreed to look at the plea of Dupare, who had claimed that he was not accorded a good probability to place forth his arguments in the trial court docket which sentenced him to demise.
(With PTI inputs)
