Terming his crime as the “rarest of the rare” warranting nothing less than the gallows, a city court on Monday sentenced a 25-year-old man to death for mercilessly killing his father and chopping his body for sacrifice to a deity in 2008 in the belief that it would ward off his troubles with his wife.
After hearing the arguments of both sides, Karkardooma Court additional sessions judge (ASJ) R.K. Gauba awarded capital punishment to Jitender, a resident of Nabi Karim in north Delhi.
Holding Jitender guilty under Section 302 (murder) of the IPC, the court said, “The brutal murder of the father followed by the mutilation of his body, all in the name of human sacrifice, to appease the deity for his own welfare adds a grave dimension to this case and leaves no scope for escape from the conclusion that it is a case falling in the category of rarest of rare, meriting the extreme penalty.”
Also imposing a fine of `5,000 on Jitender, the ASJ observed, “The manner in which the convict butchered his father and hacked off his head and organs for no conceivable fault of the victim is figuratively speaking, the gravest case of breach of trust.”