A Delhi court on Friday announced rigorous life imprisonment to four persons for killing a mother-daughter duo. The deceased, who were practising lawyers, were murederd after the four commiited robberry at their Sidharth Nagar enclave residence in south-Delhi.
“The convicts are sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment for killing the innocent and hapless women,” additional sessions judge J.R. Aryan stated on Friday. However, the court, which also imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 each on the convicts for the offences of murder and robbery, did not allow the prosecutor’s plea of award of death penalty. “The convicts deserved death penalty for smothering to death the two innocent and hapelss advocates in their house, that too without any rhyme and reason,” the prosecutor said.
Rejecting the plea for the capital punishment, the court said “though the offence was brutal, it did not fall under the rarest of rare category, warranting imposition of death penalty, as it did not shake the collective conscience of the society.” Earlier, the court had convicted Bhasker Mahalik, Bhagwan Mahalik, Niranjan Mahalik and Jagbandhu Dass for killing Swarna Mahajan, 73 and her daughter Anuradha.