Keeping Pace with Legal Change
On July 16, 2025, the Supreme Court of India upheld the death sentence of Byluru Thippaiah (Byaluru Thippaiah or Nayakara…
The case was observed by the Supreme Court of India in the Criminal Appeal Nos. 331-332 of 2022, which concerned…
When a family murder case was described as gruesome by all standards, it was the weighing of the extent of brutality of the crime and the reformed profile in prison and mental health status that the Supreme Court commuted the death penalty against the convict to life imprisonment till natural death.
The Calcutta High Court upheld Susanta Chowdhury’s murder conviction, commuting his death sentence to life imprisonment without remission for 40 years. The bench found the crime premeditated and brutal yet insufficiently “rarest of rare” to warrant capital punishment, citing evidence.
