👩⚖️ [Polity] Child-Rapist-Murderer ki death penalty reduced kyooki woh GAREEB & TB Patient hai.💡
Topic-Relevance? UPSC Essay / Ethics/ Interview:- Where do we draw the line between need of the victims family for a closure versus possibility of the reformation of a prisoner?
पीड़ित परिवार की मनोशांति की आवश्यकता और कैदी के सुधार की संभावना के बीच रेखा कहाँ खींचनी चाहिए?
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Matter:- Gujarat HC imposed death penalty on a man who raped & murdered a 4 y.o. boy.
- SC substituted it with a 25-year jail term
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Reasoning given by Supreme Court:-- Rapist-murderer is poor. He hailed from a low socio-economic household.
- Rapist had Tuberculosis in his childhood. Therefore he had intellectual disability.
- Rapist has 10 year old daughter & 64 year old mother.
- Rapist had no past criminal record
- Rapist’s behaviour in prison was completely normal and his conduct was good.
- There is possibility of reformation of this rapist.
- This is not rarest of rare category of crime.
Source: IndianExpress 18_Dec_24