Summary:
He referred to the Law Commission’s report that had recommended that death penalty should be given only in terror cases. Three convicts in the Shakti Mills gangrape case, facing the death penalty , have approached the Bombay high court to challenge the constitutional validity of the stringent provision introduced in the rape law after the Nirbhaya incident. He cited US supreme court judgments in three cases, where state laws with death penalty for rapists were struck down. MUMBAI: Should a repeat rape offender be sentenced to death? Can an offence invite the death sentence where life has not been taken?” said Chaudhry..