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The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has commuted the decease condemnation awarded to a man by a proceedings tribunal successful Pudukkottai for murdering his comparative to beingness term.
In April 2025, the Principal District and Sessions Court successful Pudukkottai awarded decease condemnation to Lakshmanan alias Suresh, 40, for brutally murdering his comparative Logapriya, 22, successful Pudukkottai successful February 2021. It was referred to the High Court. The convict besides preferred an entreaty against the decease condemnation awarded by the proceedings court.
According to the prosecution, Lakshmanan murdered Logapriya astatine her location successful Pon Nagar erstwhile she was alone. He had visited her and demanded wealth from her to settee his debts.
When she expressed her inability to springiness the money, helium attacked her with scissors and a weapon inflicting aggregate stab injuries connected her body.
He besides deed her with an robust rod connected her caput sidesplitting her.
He took immoderate jewellery from the location and fled the spot connected her scooter. Ganesh Nagar constabulary had registered a case.
A Division Bench of Justices A.D. Jagadish Chandira and R. Poornima observed that connected a holistic investigation of the grounds connected record, we find nary worldly to disturb the findings of the proceedings tribunal insofar arsenic the appellant committing the murder. The condemnation of the appellant by the proceedings tribunal is afloat justified and does not warrant immoderate interference.
From a cautious investigation of the aggravating and mitigating circumstances, the tribunal came to the decision that this lawsuit does not autumn wrong the class of ‘rarest of uncommon cases’ warranting imposition of decease condemnation connected the appellant.
While the contiguous offence is undoubtedly sedate and heinous, the mitigating factors specified arsenic the lack of anterior transgression antecedents, the anticipation of reformation and the satisfactory behaviour of the appellant successful custody, measurement successful favour of commuting the sentence, the tribunal observed and modified the condemnation of decease punishment imposed connected the appellant to imprisonment till his earthy life.
