A judge of a fast-track court in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar has made headlines by delivering verdicts in 10 cases in the last four months, sentencing 22 individuals to death.
He observed that the murder was committed in circumstances warranting the maximum punishment. He intervened to rescue the accused’s mother after he allegedly assaulted her. The incident took place on June 4, 2020, when the home guard, Ratiram, was on duty.
Sentenced 4 to death in 12-year-old murder case On August 13, he sentenced four people to death in a 12-year-old murder case. He also imposed a fine of Rs 1.70 lakh on the convicts — Ramvir, Rajiv, Rahul and Harender Kumar — after holding them guilty for the murder of Pawan Kumar. The accused had entered Kumar’s house and opened fire during an attack allegedly stemming from old rivalry in Shamli district on July 14, 2014. Death penalty to man for killing wood trader for ransom in 1999 On August 12, he awarded the death penalty to a man for kidnapping and killing a wood trader for ransom nearly 27 years ago. Sentenced 4 to death in 2011 farmer murder case
