Another death penalty for serial killer Chandrakant Jha
Serial killer Chandrakant Jha was today sentenced to death by a Delhi court in another case of murder and dumping the body near Tihar Jail after beheading and chopping off body parts of the victim, as his case fell in the “rarest of rare” category.
Additional sessions judge Kamini Lau awarded death penalty to 46-year-old Jha, a native of Madhepura in Bihar, saying he does not deserve any punishment less than death.
“Seeing the gravity of the offence nothing less than death penalty can be given to him,” the judge said. After pronouncement of the verdict, Jha asked the court to fix a date for execution of the punishment.
“If I don’t appeal, can you pick the date for execution of my death sentence,”Jha said.
To this the judge informed him that the court functions as per the law and if he does not file an appeal against this order, the court will anyhow send a reference to the Delhi high court from where the death sentence will be confirmed.
Jha was today sentenced to death in the last of the three murder cases in which he has been convicted. Earlier, the same court had sentenced him to death and life imprisonment till his death in two other cases of murder, in which also he had chopped off the head and limbs of the victims and had dumped the bodies outside Tihar jail here.
In this case, Jha had murdered one Anil Mandal in 2006 and had dumped his body outside the jail after chopping off the head and limbs. The other two murder cases are also similar in which he had killed one Upender and another person whom Jha referred to as Dalip, both in 2007.
According to the police, in order to conceal the identity of his victims and to destroy the evidence, Jha had thrown the head and other body parts of the victims at various places here.
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