Mumbai : A sessions court here has convicted and imposed the death penalty on a man for killing an old woman and a two-year-old girl here in 2017 by setting them on fire, noting the case falls under the “rarest of rare” category.
Sessions Judge A Subramaniam, in a judgment delivered on November 7, noted the crime committed by the accused, Deepak Jath, undoubtedly falls under the category of “the rarest of rare” cases warranting the death penalty.
The prosecution case is that in April 2017, Jath poured some liquid on four persons — two women, a 17-year-old girl and a two-year-old girl — and set them on fire in suburban Bandra, leading to their death. One of the women and the two-year-old girl died due to burn injuries.
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