Honour killing case: SC cuts demise to life time period

NEW DELHI: Supreme Courtroom on Wednesday awarded 20-year jail time period with out remission to a person for strangulating his nine-month pregnant daughter to demise for marrying a decrease caste individual in opposition to his want in 2013 and commuted the demise sentence given by trial courtroom and Bombay HC, reviews Amit Anand Choudhary.A bench of Justices Gavai, Aravind Kumar and Viswanathan convicted him for the offence however granted him life saying the case did are available in rarest of uncommon class.Apparently it was his spouse and mom of his daughter whose testimony proved to be decisive as she deposed that her husband was offended with deceased as she married out of their caste.The highest courtroom took a sympathetic view after noting the passable conduct of the convict in jail. It mentioned the character of crime shouldn’t be solely motive to award demise sentence.