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Lokur, J.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Supreme Court:\u00a0<\/strong>A Bench comprising of Madan B. Lokur, S. Abdul Nazeer and Deepak Gupta, JJ. commuted the death sentence awarded to the review petitioner to life imprisonment. The petitioner was convicted under Sections 376(2)(f), 377 and 302 IPC for rape and murder of a 3- year old girl. He was awarded death sentence by the trial court which was confirmed by Bombay High Court. Aggrieved thereby, he preferred an appeal before the Supreme Court which was dismissed. Now, the petitioner was before the Court for review of its judgment dismissing his appeal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court was concerned with the order of death sentence awarded to the petitioner and focused its discussion on certain points including:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Circumstantial evidence<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the petitioner, the case was based on circumstantial evidence. The Court held, &#8220;ordinarily, it would not be advisable to award capital punishment in a case of circumstantial evidence. But there is no hard and fast rule.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Reform, rehabilitation and re-integration into society<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harking back to <em>Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab<\/em>, (1980) 2 SCC 684, the Court held that &#8220;<em>Bachan Singh\u00a0<\/em>requires us to consider the probability of reform and rehabilitation and not its possibility or its impossibility&#8230; it is the obligation on the prosecution to prove to the court, through evidence, that the possibility is that the convict cannot be reformed or rehabilitated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>DNA evidence<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court laid stress on the usefulness of the advanced scientific technology and advised the prosecution to take advantage of it in such cases as the present one and stated, &#8220;where DNA profiling has not been done or it is held back from the Trial Court, an adverse consequence would follow for the prosecution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Prior history of the convict or criminal antecedents<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After considering various earlier decisions, the Court held that mere pendency of one or more criminal cases against a convict cannot be a factor for consideration while awarding sentence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the instant case, the Court was of the opinion that the prosecution was remiss in not producing the available DNA evidence which lead to an adverse presumption against the prosecution. The trial court was in error in taking into consideration, for the purposes of sentencing, the pendency of two similar cases against the petitioner. Looking at the crimes committed by the appellant and the material on record including his overall personality and subsequent events, the Court commuted the sentence of death awarded by the petitioner while directing that he should not be released from custody for the rest of his normal life. the review petition was disposed of accordingly. [Rajendra Pralhadrao Wasnik v. State of Maharashtra,<a href=\"http:\/\/scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/PQh208J9\"><b>2018 SCC OnLine SC 2799<\/b><\/a>, decided on 12-12-2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;While the crime is important, the criminal is equally important insofar as the sentencing process is concerned.&#8221; -Madan B. Lokur, J. 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