{"id":122407,"date":"2020-10-29T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T10:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=122407"},"modified":"2020-10-29T16:13:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T10:43:03","slug":"supreme-court-stays-rajasthan-high-court-order-upholding-death-sentence-of-person-involved-in-gruesome-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/top-news-of-the-day\/news\/supreme-court-stays-rajasthan-high-court-order-upholding-death-sentence-of-person-involved-in-gruesome-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court stays Rajasthan High Court order upholding death sentence of person involved in gruesome murder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>New Delhi, Oct 29 (ILNS):<\/strong>\u00a0The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/topic\/supreme-court-of-india-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Supreme Court<\/a> has stayed the death sentence of person convicted in a gruesome murder case. In the brutal massacre, a woman was not only strangled to death, but her limbs were amputated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bench headed by the Chief Justice S. A. Bobde, hearing an appeal by convict Mohan Singh, said: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote td_quote_box td_box_center\" style=\"margin-top:-25px\"><p><span style=\"color:#dd3333\" class=\"has-inline-color\">\u201cPermission is granted. Meanwhile, there will be a stay on giving the death penalty. Let the records be sought.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The apex court was hearing an appeal against the August 7 decision of the Rajasthan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/topic\/high-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">High Court<\/a>, upholding the death sentence pronounced by a lower court in the case lodged against Singh in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bench told Senior Advocate Siddharth Luthra, appearing for Singh, that he had never heard of a murder in which the accused had bitten the victim. Justice A. S. Bopanna and Justice V. Ramasubramanian was also part of the bench. The bench said: &#8220;Is he (Singh) some kind of demon or what is it?&#8221; The bench added: &#8220;Your client has done a very bad thing. Why did he tear her stomach and put clothes in it? Is he a surgeon or what?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read Also: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/courts\/pollution-in-delhi-ncr-supreme-court-to-study-ordinance-before-passing-further-orders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pollution in Delhi-NCR: Supreme Court to study ordinance before passing further orders<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luthra said that Singh was working as a security guard. According to police an FIR was registered in the case in May last year. The woman&#8217;s body was found in a bag tied with wires. During the hearing, Singh had claimed that he had not committed the murder and that he was wrongly implicated in the case. In February this year, a lower court had convicted him of murder and sentenced him to death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has stayed the death sentence of person convicted in a gruesome murder case. 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