Two-judge bench can hear Godhra appeals as HC gave no death penalty: SC do sex sex to

May, 06 2025 14:04 PM

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the argument that a three-judge and not a two-judge bench should hear appeals of convicts in the 2002 Godhra train burning case as the issue was of capital punishment. A bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and Aravind Kumar dismissed the argument of senior advocate Sanjay Hegde, who was representing two convicts. A three-judge bench has to hear appeals in cases in which the high courts have either confirmed death penalty or awarded it after hearing the appeals of parties but the Gujarat High Court commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment in the present case, it observed. A Constitution bench of the apex court in September 2014 held a three-judge bench would hear appeals in all such cases in which death penalty was awarded by the high court. "The Gujarat High Court, in the present case, commuted the death penalty of 11 convicts into life imprisonment and did not award the death penalty. The trial court had awarded the death penalty in this .

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