SC-Dismissing the review petition and upholding the conviction and death penalty, the Hon’ble SC observed that the two accused misused societal trust to hold as captive two innocent school-going children, one of whom was brutally raped and sodomised, and thereupon administered poison and finally, drowned by throwing them into a canal and this was indeed craftily planned and executed. The present offences are so grave as to shock the conscience of this Court and of society and would without doubt amount to rarest of the rare. It is no longer res integra that there can be no hard rule of not awarding death in cases based on circumstantial evidence owing to recent developments in medical science and the possibility of abuse by seasoned criminals.-Hon'ble Justices Rohinton Fali Nariman,Surya Kant and Sanjiv Khanna[07-11-2019]
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