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A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court connected Wednesday commuted the decease condemnation awarded to Vembayam nonmigratory Anil Kumar and sentenced him to beingness word for murdering a Thiruvallam autochthonal and raping and assaulting his woman successful 2016, who continues to beryllium successful a vegetative state. Anil Kumar had been awarded decease condemnation successful 2019 by the Additional Sessions Judge, Thiruvananthapuram.
During this, helium volition not beryllium eligible for parole for 30 years. The tribunal further upheld the beingness condemnation the sessions tribunal awarded to Anil Kumar’s subordinate and Tamil Nadu autochthonal Chandrasekharan.
The sentences awarded to the accused persons shall tally concurrently.
While upholding their conviction, the Division Bench of Justice A.K. Jayasankaran Nambiar and Justice Jobin Sebastian commuted Anil Kumar’s decease condemnation based connected a mitigation survey study that suggested the anticipation of reformation. Moreover, the decease condemnation is reserved lone for those cases that suffice arsenic the “rarest of the rare,” the tribunal said.
