Shakti Mills gang rape: Bombay HC commutes death penalty of three
The Hindu
‘They deserve imprisonment for life to repent the offence committed by them’
The Bombay High Court on Thursday commuted to life sentence the death penalty awarded to three convicts in the gangrape of a 22-year-old photojournalist inside the defunct Shakti Mills compound in central Mumbai in 2013. The judges said they “deserve imprisonment for life to repent the offence committed by them as death puts an end to the concept of repentance”.
Terming rape as a “serious blow to the supreme honour and dignity of a woman”, the court said the convicts “do not deserve to assimilate with the society, as it would be difficult to survive in a society of such men who look upon women with derision, depravity, contempt and objects of desire”.
A Division Bench of Justices Sadhana Jadhav and Prithviraj Chavan refused to confirm the death penalty awarded to Vijay Jadhav, Mohammad Qasim Bengali Shaikh and Mohammad Ansari, and commuted their sentence to life in prison for the remainder of their lives.
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