Supreme Court slams activists for siding convicts
‘We are at a loss to understand as to for what reason or purpose such propagation is carried on’
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday slammed rights activists who propagate for lessening the gravity of imposition of severe punishment unmindful of such consequences and said they are only keen to indulge in propagation of rescuing the convicts from being meted out with appropriate punishments.
A five-judge Constitution bench in its verdict in the Rajiv Gandhi killers case said, “We are at a loss to understand as to for what reason or purpose such propagation is carried on and what benefit the society at large is going to derive.”
Writing the judgment Justice Kalifulla said, “in the present juncture, when we take judicial notice of the crime rate in our country, we find that criminals of all types of crimes are on the increase.”
“Be it white collar crimes, vindictive crimes, crimes against children and women, hapless widow, old aged parents, sexual offences, retaliation murder, planned and calculated murder, through paid assassins, gangsters operating in the developed cities indulging in killing for a price, kidnapping and killing for ransom, killing by terrorists and militants etc., are the order of the day,” the bench said.