INDIA. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR MAN CONVICTED OF KILLING HIS WIVES

it was reported that Saibanna, facing trial for murdering his first wife Malakawwa, married another woman, Nagamma.
After being convicted of the murder of Malakawwa and sentenced to life imprisonment, he was let out of prison on parole for one month on August 19, 1994. He took his second wife Nagamma and their one-and-half year-old daughter to the Bhosga village in Karnataka on September 12, 1994, where his second wife’s family lived.
On that night, suspecting Nagamma had been unfaithful to him during his imprisonment, he attacked both her and their child with a sharp weapon killing them both. Agreeing with the trial court and the High Court that the case fell within the category of "rarest of rare" crimes, a Supreme Court Bench comprising Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice B N Srikrishna upheld the sentence saying it was fit for the imposition of the death penalty.