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KERALA HIGH COURT CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE The Hindu, October 06, 2004, Wednesday Murder: court confirms death sentence By Our Staff Reporter KOCHI, OCT. 5. A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court today confirmed the death sentence by the Kollam Sessions Court awarded to Rama Subramanian alias Mani for murdering his employer- a widow and her three children. The Bench comprising Justice J. B. Koshy and Justice J. M. James delivered the judgment confirming the sentence while dismissing an appeal filed by the accused against the death sentence. The accused hailed from Thirutharappapuram at Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu. The prosecution case was that he had murdered Sabithabeevi (38), her three children, Jasmin (13), Jiyas (9), and Navas (6) and robbed her gold ornaments. The murder took place in August, 1999. Servant According to the prosecution, Hashim of Injavila, husband of Sabithabeevi had brought the accused from Tirunelveli and employed him as a servant for doing jobs in his poultry farm. Hashim had died in 1997. His widow then entrusted the task of running the poultry farm to the accused. The service of Subramanian was terminated when he began to misbehave with her daughter, Jasmin. It was to wreak vengeance for terminating his job that he had committed the murder and robbery. Confirming the sentence, the Bench said that he had committed the murder of a widow and her three children in a brutal manner. Therefore, the court said that it did not see any ground to interfere with the judgement of the lower court. Confidence While awarding the sentence, the Sessions Judge had said that the accused had come to the family as a servant and gained the confidence of the family. In fact, the family had treated him as one of their members. The lower court added that he had committed the murder in a `diabolic and cruel manner'. The sessions court, therefore, observed that it was a rarest of rare cases warranting capital punishment. The sessions court found him guilty of the offence punishable under 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and ordered that he be hanged by the neck until he was dead. http://www.hindu.com/2004/10/06/stories/2004100608310400.htm ------------------------------------------------------------ The Hindu, October 06, 2004, Wednesday West Bengal bans shows based on Dhananjoy case By Malabika Bhattacharya KOLKATA, OCT. 5. The shadow of Dhananjoy Chatterjee, whose execution by hanging on August 14 following his conviction in a rape and murder case took West Bengal by storm, still haunts the State. Late last week, the State Government formally banned the depiction of the "Dhananjoy case" in stage performances (known as jatras) after the widow of Chatterjee appealed to the authorities to spare her from the ordeal. The State Home Secretary, Amit Kiran Deb, said it was on the basis of the appeal made by Dhananjoy Chatterjee's wife that the State Government had prohibited the staging of all shows having Chatterjee's death by hanging as the central theme. "The spate of accidental deaths of children who have tried to emulate the episode is also a reason for the banning of the shows. The humanitarian angle has been given due importance in banning such shows," the official said. The State has also prohibited the depiction of Chatterjee's execution in any form during the Durga Puja festival. Organisers' problems A number of jatra organisers are facing problems with the ban order in view of the preparations already made for performances planned in the days ahead. Handbills have been distributed, posters put up and halls booked. Certain organisers are understood to have had the scripts vetted by the police. Even so, at least one organiser is going ahead with telling Dhananjoy Chatterjee's story but only after the names have been changed and the plot suitably altered. Earlier, stage performances depicting Osama bin Laden were banned by the authorities because of the possibility of religious sentiments being hurt. Naxalite groups have stepped in to help find husbands for at least two girls of Dhananjoy Chatterjee's family, which has been ostracised after the execution. http://www.hindu.com/2004/10/06/stories/2004100600711300.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Confederation of Human Rights Organizations (CHRO) |
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