Indian Penal Code provides different punishments that may be awarded to a person convicted for the crime and these punishments are Death penalty, life Imprisonment, imprisonment may be categorised as simple, rigorous, fine or forfeiture.
Let’s understand the punishments with these articles that which punishment is suitable for the murder accused the life imprisonment or the death penalty.
Life Imprisonment: when any individual who is convicted under the life imprisonment will have to be behind the jail till death or we can say that jail for the entire life or Prison for life, if any accused is convicted and for the punishment of life imprisonment that particular person will be punished in the jail till he dies, the imprisonment for the life or the life imprisonment is awarded to those person who is accused and is guilty of committing violent crimes under the Indian Penal Code, 1860, few examples are the person convicted for murder under the section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, other sections under the Indian Penal Code under which the life imprisonment is awarded are section 131, 132, 124A, 120B. As per the section 433 of the Criminal Procedure Code provides mandatory provision that cannot be less than fourteen years the minimum period that may be served under the imprisonment of life is fourteen years.
Death Punishment or the Capital Punishment?
As we all know that under the section 302 of the Indian Penal Code which provide the punishment for the offence of murder that is the ‘Death Punishment’, ‘Life Imprisonment’, and also liable to pay the fine.
Let’s understand the landmark judgement in the case of Raju Jagdish v. The State Of Maharashtra, here in this case the accused was convicted for the crime of rape of a nine year old kid and hence the trial court awarded the death sentences to the accused and the same punishment was awarded by the High Court and thus appeal was made before the Hon’ble Supreme Court where the punishment was reduced the Apex Court said that the death punishment can be awarded only in the rarest conditions and thus did not awarded the death sentence to the particular accused the court also said that the punishment of life imprisonment is rule whereas thee death punishment is the exception.
Although we all know that the offence of murder is a henious crime for which those mentioned above punishments are awarded to the convicted and if the accused who is convicted is not satisfied appeal before the Higher Courts thorugh the medium of Top laywers in Mumbai. Lawyers in Delhi and other parts of India. Then further they move to the concerned upper court for some amount of relief or satisfaction, the punishment of death don’t provide the accused a second chance for rehabilitation but the life imprisonment provide them a second chance to improve themself and grow as develop and learn from the past incident what has been faced by the convicted.
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