The Hindu·4 min read·medium
Bombay High Court commutes death sentence of two men in kidnap-murder case
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Chinmay Gaikwad
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The Bombay High Court has commuted the death sentences of two men convicted of a 2013 kidnapping and murder to 30 years of imprisonment. The court ruled the crime did not meet the 'rarest of rare' threshold required for capital punishment.
The Bombay High Court has commuted the death sentence of two men, Chetan Pagare and Aman Jat, to 30 years of rigorous imprisonment without remission for the kidnapping and murder of a 22-year-old engineering student in 2013, holding that the case does not fall within the "rarest of rare" category despite the nature of the crime.
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