Tuesday, February 18th, 2025

Spent 23 years in jail…the minor was given death sentence, now the Supreme Court acquitted him/her saying this

New Delhi: A court in Uttarakhand had sentenced a minor to death in a murder case 23 years ago. The Supreme Court released him/her on Wednesday. The Supreme Court accepted that the courts did injustice to that minor. It was clear from the evidence that he/she was only 14 years old at the time of the crime, but the courts did not pay attention to this and upheld his/her sentence. A bench headed by Justice MM Sundaresh said that the prisoner was serving the sentence due to the mistake of the courts. he/she did not get a chance to come back to the society. A bench of Justices MM Sundaresh and Arvind Kumar said that the convict Om Prakash alias Raju had claimed in the lower court at the time of sentencing that he/she was a minor, but the same was rejected. Was. The Supreme Court said that we would only say that this is a case in which the appellant is suffering because of a mistake made by the courts. We are told that his/her conduct in jail is normal and there are no adverse reports against him/her.

he/she lost the opportunity to reintegrate into society. The time he/she has lost through no fault of his/her can never be brought back. Accepting the petition, the Supreme Court ordered the release of the petitioner but also said that his/her conviction will remain intact. The convict was earlier awarded death sentence for murder and the Supreme Court had also upheld his/her sentence. After this he/she appealed to the President for clemency and on May 8, 2012, he/she got partial relief when his/her death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.

his/her appeal in the Supreme Court was argued by senior lawyer S Muralidhar. he/she said that injustice was done to the prisoner at every level, who kept telling the lower court, the High Court and the Supreme Court that he/she was a minor at the time of the crime. In 2001, the lower court convicted him/her and rejected his/her plea of ​​being a minor. The court ruled on the basis of his/her bank check book and his/her bank account, which showed that he/she was 20 years old at the time of the crime. When his/her appeal was rejected in 2002, the High Court and the Supreme Court also emphasized the same fact.

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