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Gurugram: A special CBI court in Haryana Saturday sentenced four men to death for the murders of a farmer and his wife and the gangrape of two of their family members, including a minor, at Dingerheri village in Haryanas Nuh district in 2016...
Calling it a rarest of the rare case, Additional District and Sessions Judge Rajeev Goyal awarded the capital punishment to Hemat Chouhan (30), Ayan Chauhan (24), Vinay (36) and Jai Bhagwan (31), also imposing a combined fine of Rs 8.20 lakh...
In his order, the judge stated that the aggravating circumstances of the crimes completely outweigh the mitigating circumstances of the convicts as cited by the defence, and hence, they are required to be awarded severest and deterrent punishment...
The present case, therefore, falls within the category of rarest of rare cases which calls for award of capital punishment to the convicts and any lesser sentence would do grave injustice not only to the victims and their family members but to the collective conscience of the society, the order, seen by ThePrint, read...
Having given my thoughtful consideration to the matter at hand, I am of the considered opinion that in view of serious and grave offences committed by the convicts, they are not entitled to be shown any leniency in the matter of award of sentence inasmuch as they not only killed a Muslim couple by hitting them with sticks on their heads but also gangraped a minor girl of 16 years and a married woman of 21 years in a most brutal, cruel and ruthless manner, read the order...
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