“Deserves No Sympathy”: Bombay High Court Enhances Punishment, Sentences Watchman To Death For Employer’s Dacoity & Murder

Case: Shailendrasingh Shivmurtisingh Thakur and Ors. v. The State of Maharashtra, with connected matters

Coram: Justices VK Jadhav and Shrikant Kulkarni

Case No.: CriAppeal 64-2014+.odt

Court Observation: “The respondents-accused persons have committed the crime with premeditation and it involves extreme brutality…They have committed gruesome, brutal murder of two middle aged helpless and hapless persons out of lust for money and ornaments. It was a pre-planned, calculated, cold blooded murder. This crime resulted in public abhorrence and shocked the judicial conscience and the conscience of the society.”

He was on the day duty as watchman on the said Basant bungalow. He was knowing well the activities of deceased Ramesh Munot and deceased Chitra Munot. The other accused persons had come to him and accordingly, he executed the plan in a very calculated manner. We have also observed in our judgment that this is a rarest of rare case. In our considered opinion, respondent no.3-original accused no.3 Shivkumar Ramsundar Saket deserves no sympathy.”

“The crime has been committed under no duress, nor on provocation. On the other hand, two innocent lives were snuffed out. The murders were gruesome, brutal and diabolic. The crime has been committed with extreme depravity and in a merciless manner. It falls in the category of rarest of rare case. In our considered opinion, it merits the death penalty to the extent of accused no.3 Shivkumar Ramsundar Saket. In the facts of the present case, age of accused no.3 Shivkumar Ramsundar Saket cannot be considered as a mitigating circumstance.”

“Deserves No Sympathy”: Bombay High Court Enhances Punishment, Sentences Watchman To Death For Employer’s Dacoity & Murder