New Delhi . Asal Baat news. Article 32 of the Constitution empowers the court to reopen sentencing in cases of capital punishment on Gro...
New Delhi .
Asal Baat news.
Article 32 of the Constitution empowers the court to reopen sentencing in cases of capital punishment on Grounds of breach of procedural safeguards,the supreme court said while agreeing to hear again a death row convict's plea.
Vasant Sampat dupare, who belongs to Nagpur,was convicited of Rapping and killing a four year old in April 2008,he lured her with chocolate and crushed her head with stones to avoid identification of the body.
A bench of justice Vikram Nath,Sanjay Karol and Sandeep Mehta allowed the convict's plea filed under article 32 noting that there had been a breach of proedural safeguards.
It also cited the 2022 Manoj vs Madhya Pradesh judgement in which the top Court issued several guidelines and mandate the trial courts to collect the accused's psychiatric and psholoysical evalutions report before awarding death.
" We hold that article 32 of the constitution empowers this court in cases related to capital punishment to reopen the sentencing stage where the accused has been condemned to death penalty without ensuring that the guidelines mandated in the Manoj versus Madhya Pradesh was followed" the bench said.
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