In a recent legal development, a Mumbai sessions court has handed down a death sentence to Deepak Jath for the 2017 incident where he set an elderly woman and a two-year-old girl on fire, resulting in their tragic deaths.
In a judgment pronounced on November 7, Sessions Judge A Subramaniam noted the crime committed by the accused, Deepak Jath, unquestionably falls under the category of "the rarest of rare" cases warranting the death penalty.
According to the prosecution in April 2017, Jath poured some liquid on four persons -- two women, a 17-year-old girl and a two-year-old girl -- and set them on fire in suburban Bandra leading to fatal consequences. One of the women and the two-year-old girl succumbed to burn injuries.
The court rejected Jath's assertion that he was mentally ill and Jath had earlier harassed the 17-year-old girl and was irked when he was admonished for the same.
The court said, "Society abhors such crimes which shock the conscience of the society and always attracts intense and extreme indignation of the community,"
"I believe that the manner of causing death and pouring inflammable material on the victims, and clod blooded lighting them up which included an old helpless lady and a small child of a couple of years shows the dastardly act and classifies it as such," the court said.
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