INDIA. SUPREME COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE DUE TO INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
India’s Supreme Court converted the death sentence of a convict from Punjab to life imprisonment due to insufficient evidence. Vikarmjit Singh had been sentenced to death by the Punjab and Haryana High Court for murdering his newly wed wife Meena Rani.
India’s Supreme Court converted the death sentence of a convict from Punjab to life imprisonment due to insufficient evidence. Vikarmjit Singh had been sentenced to death by the Punjab and Haryana High Court for murdering his newly wed wife Meena Rani.
"Suspicion, however, grave it might be, cannot be a substitute for proof," the Supreme Court held.
According to the prosecution, in July 2002, Singh took his wife Meena Rani in his car and murdered her with the help of accomplices on Bukan Wala bridge in Punjab.
Rani suffered as many as 23 stab wounds, but in his defence, Singh demonstrated some injuries on his self to claim that the attack was engineered by a gang of robbers.
"Suspicion, however, grave it might be, cannot be a substitute for proof," the Supreme Court held.
According to the prosecution, in July 2002, Singh took his wife Meena Rani in his car and murdered her with the help of accomplices on Bukan Wala bridge in Punjab.
Rani suffered as many as 23 stab wounds, but in his defence, Singh demonstrated some injuries on his self to claim that the attack was engineered by a gang of robbers.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: Punjab Newsline, 26/11/2006)