Death sentence awarded by Additional Sessions Judge is commuted to imprisonment for life finding that it is not rarest of rare case

Death sentence awarded by the Additional Sessions Judge is commuted to imprisonment for life finding that it is not the rarest of rare case 1. The appellants herein namely Sunil @ Balikaran Sahu and Amit Gupta were awarded death sentence by the trial Court after having found them guilty for offences punishable under Sections 460 (three counts), 324 (three counts), 307 (three counts), 506 Part-II (ten counts), 397 (nine counts) and 302 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short ‘the IPC’). They were sentenced to death by hanging under sub-section (5) of Section 3...