About 100 murder cases pending before a judge of a fast-track court in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar, who has sentenced 22 people to death in the last four months, have now been transferred to a different judge.
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.
The cases, involving offences punishable with death or life imprisonment, were transferred from Additional District and Sessions Judge Ravi Kumar Diwakar to the court of District and Sessions Judge Virendra Kumar Singh, a government counsel told the news agency PTI.
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.
