SUPREME COURT SETS ASIDE DEATH SENTENCE OF WATCHMAN CONVICTED FOR DACOITY AND MURDER

NEW DELHI The Supreme Court in the case Shivkumar Ramsundar Saket v.State of Maharashtra observed and has set aside the death sentence of a watchman who is being convicted for the dacoity and murder of his employers to life imprisonment.

The bench comprising of Justice BR Gavai, Justice PK Mishra, and Justice KV Vishwanathan was hearing the present matter.

The bench in the case set aside the death penalty imposed by the Bombay High Court in the year 2022.

The court in the case held that, 'The learned Trial Judge upon consideration of the material placed on record had come to a considered conclusion that the present case does not fit in the category of the 'rarest of rare cases. Thus, unless the finding recorded by the learned Trial Judge was found to be perverse or impossible, the High Court in the case ought not to have interfered with the same.'

In the present case, the watchman Shiv Kumar Saket was being convicted of the brutal murder of businessman Ramesh Munot and his wife, Chitra, at their residence in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, in the year 2007.