OM PRAKASH Vs. STATE OF HARYANA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) LEAVE granted.

(2.) AT the time of admission of this matter, the Court had issued notice limited to the question of sentence only. Hence the question involved in this appeal is whether death sentence imposed requires to be confirmed on the ground that it is the rarest of the rare cases? Whether sentence of imprisonment for life would be inadequate? This is a case in which persistent disputes over a small house in a village between two neighbours and inaction by the authority (despite repeated prayers), led to this case of gruesome murders of seven persons, some totally innocent.

(3.) ON appeal, after appreciating the entire evidence, the High Court of Punjab and Haryana in Criminal Appeal No. 343/DB of 1997 confirmed the conviction of the accused.