INDIA: EXISTENCE OF DEATH PENALTY WARRANTS IMPOSITION IN SOME CASES – SC

the Indian Supreme Court ruled that the court's failure to impose capital punishment for heinous crimes falling in the rarest of rare category would amount to "repeal of death penalty by the judiciary". This ruling was handed down by Justices Katju and Prasad while upholding the death penalty of Ajitsingh Harnamsingh Gujral for killing his wife and three children after a fight by setting them on fire in Andheri on April 9, 2003.