SC slaps deadly notice on wife killer

NEW DELHI: Favouring harsher punishment for crimes against women, the Supreme Court on Tuesday slapped a notice on a convict from Andhra Pradesh, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for bru
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NEW DELHI: Favouring harsher punishment for crimes against women, the Supreme Court on Tuesday slapped a notice on a convict from Andhra Pradesh, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for brutally murdering his wife, asking him to explain why he shouldn’t be hanged.

Thathamsetty Suresh, the convicted killer, was sentenced to life by the Andhra Pradesh High Court.

He had filed a special leave petition in the apex court seeking a lesser sentence. A bench comprising Justice Markandey Katju and Justice Gyan Sudha Misra observed, “we have recently held in the case of Satya Narayan Tiwari-Jolly & Another Vs State of UP, decided on October 28, 2010, that this court is going to take a serious view in the matters of crimes against women and give harsh punishment.” The bench also recalled, “this view was reiterated by us in another special leave petition in the case of Sukhdev Singh & Another Vs State of Punjab and we issued a notice to the petitioner as to why his life sentence should not be enhanced to death sentence.” Justice Katju pointed out that injuries showed that the head of the deceased was battered repeatedly by a blunt weapon (probably a lathi) and then kerosene was poured on her and she was put on fire. “These facts prima facie reveal that the deceased was killed in a barbaric and brutal manner,” he said.

Justice Katju dismissed the plea of Suresh’s counsel that there was only circumstantial evidence against his client noting that “in such cases, ordinarily there is only circumstantial evidence but that does not mean that a person cannot be convicted on the basis of circumstantial evidence.”

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