An FIR was registered at the Sarai Rohilla Railway Station police station in 2014. The court had held the accused guilty of murder on April 9, 2025.
Delhi’s Tis Hazari Court has recently awarded a life sentence to a man who killed his wife by burning her in 2014. The court stated that the case does not fall under the category of “rarest of rare” cases.
An FIR was registered at the Sarai Rohilla Railway Station police station in 2014. The court had held the accused guilty of murder on April 9, 2025.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Virender Kumar Kharta sentenced Giriraj Kishor Bhardwaj alias Shyam Nagar for murdering his wife Kusum.
The court rejected poverty as a significant mitigating factor and noted that the aggravating circumstances outweighed the mitigating ones.
While sentencing the convict on May 17, the court said, “In the present case, the aggravating circumstances have outweighed the mitigating circumstances, but still, the present case does not fall within the purview of the rarest of rare doctrine.”
During arguments on sentencing, the defence counsel requested a lenient view.
It was argued that the convict belongs to the economically weaker section of society. The counsel also stated that the convict’s father is a senior citizen suffering from various ailments, and his mother has already passed away.
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