{"id":207146,"date":"2018-12-24T10:15:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T04:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=207146"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:14:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T06:44:43","slug":"2014-software-engineer-rape-and-murder-case-mere-good-behaviour-of-under-trial-prisoner-doesnt-absolve-him-of-cruel-act-death-sentence-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2018\/12\/24\/2014-software-engineer-rape-and-murder-case-mere-good-behaviour-of-under-trial-prisoner-doesnt-absolve-him-of-cruel-act-death-sentence-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 software engineer rape and murder case| Mere good behaviour of under-trial prisoner doesn&#8217;t absolve him of cruel act; death sentence confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;It took me quite a long time develop the voice and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-Madeleine Albright<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Bombay\u00a0High Court:\u00a0<\/strong>A Division Bench comprising of Ranjit V. More and Bharati H. Dangre, JJ. confirmed the death sentence awarded to the accused in the gruesome case of rape and murder of a 23 year old software engineer in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>The incident<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The victim was a software engineer working in Mumbai. She took a leave in December 2013 went to meet her parents in Andhra Pradesh. She was returning on 4 January 2014. Next morning, when her train was scheduled to reach Mumbai, her father attempted to contact her but without success. On the same day, a missing complaint was lodged with police. Thus began a frantic search for the victim. After 11 days, on 16 January, her half-burnt body was traced in the bushes on express highway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>The investigation<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An FIR under Section 302 and 201 was registered. CCTV footage from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus was obtained which revealed that the victim walked out of the railway station on 5 January along with a stranger who was carrying her trolley bag. The man was identified as one Chandrabhan Sanap (accused) and was arrested. On his disclosure, articles belonging to the victim as well motorcycle on which she was driven to the crime spot was seized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Prosecution case and the trial court decision<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accused was charged for abducting the victim on 5 January 2014 at 5.30 am from LTT Station on the pretext of dropping her at the hostel and thereafter he drove her on his bike to crime spot and committed rape on her. He was charged with Sections 364, 366, 376(2)(m), 376-A, 392 read with Section 397, 302 and 201 IPC. After the conclusion of the trial, the trial court convicted the accused and sentenced him\u00a0<strong>to be hanged by neck till he is dead.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Confirmation case and appeal to the High Court<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per Section 28(2) CrPC, on imposition of death sentence, the matter has to be referred for confirmation of the High Court. The confirmation case was tagged with the appeal filed by the accused against the judgment of the trial court. The case of prosecution was based on circumstantial evidence and the prosecution had relied on 39 witnesses to establish its case along with several documentary evidence. After considering the evidence in detail including witness testimony, CCTV footage, DNA reports, post-mortem report, etc., the Court was of the opinion that prosecution was able to establish a complete chain of circumstances by cogent and reliable evidence. It was held that the prosecution had established the case against the accused beyond reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><i>Death Sentence<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to decide the question of confirmation of the death sentence, the Court relied on\u00a0<em>Bachan Singh v. State of\u00a0<\/em><i>Punjab, <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/KKB26x97\">(1980) 2\u00a0SCC 684<\/a> and after praying due regard to both crime and criminal, drew a balance sheet of aggravating and mitigating factors. The Court observed,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>&#8221; The way in which a society\u00a0protects its victims of crime is a barometer of that society&#8217;s standards of human dignity and decency. When a woman in the society is raped, it is not only she who is subjected to rape, but it is the tendency\u00a0that is reflected to overpower, to violate and to crash the dignity of the entire woman creed in the society.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was further observed that for a small pleasure, a young woman who had just stepped into womanhood was done to death with extreme vileness. The abhorrent, grotesque and perverted manner in which she was murdered by the accused was also taken note of. In Court&#8217;s specific opinion, although &#8216;reformative theory&#8217; is recognised as one of the leading theory for imposition of penalty but undue stress on the same would defeat basic tenets of imposition of penalty where crime committed obnoxiously shocks the collective conscience of the society. Furthermore, merely because behaviour of accused as under-trial prisoner was good, could not be a ground to absolve him of the most gruesome act he committed. In the present case, the only fault of victim was that she fell prey to the sinister design of the accused to fulfill his lust. As such,\u00a0<strong>the Court upheld the death sentence awarded to the accused holding it to be &#8216;rarest of rare&#8217; case\u00a0<\/strong>which amounts to the devastation of social trust, shocks social conscience and calls for extreme penalty of capital punishment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Accordingly, the death sentence was confirmed and the criminal appeal filed by the accused was dismissed. [State of Maharashtra v. Chandrabhan Sudam Sanap, <a href=\"http:\/\/scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/f4yQh9N2\"><b>2018 SCC OnLine Bom 6576<\/b><\/a>, dated 20-12-2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It took me quite a long time develop the voice and now that I have it, I am not going to be <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":74381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[2896,2948,2572,32920],"class_list":["post-207146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-Death_sentence","tag-murder","tag-Rape","tag-under-trial-prisoner"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2014 software engineer rape and murder case| Mere good behaviour of under-trial prisoner doesn&#039;t absolve him of cruel act; 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