Servant gets death sentence
A Delhi court on Thursday awarded the death sentence to the domestic help of an elderly woman for murdering her and her 12-year-old grandson in 2007 in the Vasant Kunj neighbourhood of south Delhi.
After hearing the arguments of both the prosecution and the defence, additional sessions judge (ASJ) S.K. Sarvaria awarded the death sentence to Mithilesh Kumar Singh.
The court said, “The accused is a menace to society and there is no chance of his improvement, to make him a normal citizen with normal behaviour... He is liable for the extreme penalty of capital punishment.”
The court also made it clear that the “aggravating circumstances” outweighed the mitigating ones and consequently, the offence committed by Mithilesh Kumar Singh fell under the “rarest of rare category”, warranting imposition of the death penalty.
The court allowed the plea of the prosecution, which argued before the court that the murder was very brutal and thus the harshest punishment should be given to the convict, Mithilesh. The court on July 1 held Mithilesh guilty for the double under after convicting him under Section 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder) and 397 (robbery) of the IPC. According to the prosecution, Mithilesh, a resident of Sitamarhi in Bihar, had allegedly killed 60-year-old Surjit Kaur and her grandson Karamveer Singh, in their house at the posh Vasant Kunj area in south Delhi on March 2, 2007. The convict, who was working as a domestic help, sedated their pet dog and killed them before decamping with valuables.
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