The court refused to accept accused’s claim he was not mentally sound. (Representational)
Mumbai:
A sessions court in Mumbai has given the death penalty to a man for the 2017 killing of an old woman and a two-year-old girl by setting them on fire. Sessions Judge A Subramaniam, in a judgment delivered on November 7, stated that the crime committed by the accused, Deepak Jath, undoubtedly falls under the category of “the rarest of rare” cases warranting the death penalty.
According to the prosecution’s case, in April 2017, Jath poured some liquid on four people and set them on fire in suburban Bandra, resulting in the death of two women and a two-year-old girl due to burn injuries. The court refused to accept Jath’s claim that he was not mentally sound.
“I believe that the manner of causing death and pouring inflammable material on the victims, and clod bloodedly lighting them up which included an old helpless lady and a small child of couple of years shows the dastardly act and classifies it as such,” the court said.
The court noted, “Society abhors such crimes which shock the conscience of the society and always attracts intense and extreme indignation of the community.”
Jath had claimed that he was irked by one of the victims who had used certain derogatory words against him, but the court rejected this defense.
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