“Will Ariz Khan, convicted in the Batla House attack, get the death penalty? Here is what we know about the attack and the police encounter for which Sonia Gandhi shed tears”, Opindia, August 21, 2023:
“On 18th August, the Delhi High Court reserved its judgment on confirming the death penalty awarded to terrorist Ariz Khan in the Batla House encounter case of 2008. Decorated Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma lost his life in the incident.
Terrorist Ariz Khan was given the death penalty by Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Yadav of Saket Court in Delhi in March 2021 after the court found him guilty of killing a police official. Khan challenged the sessions’ court judgment in the High Court in July 2021. The bench of Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice Amit Sharma heard the matter.
The death penalty is awarded in India in the rarest of rare cases. While announcing the death penalty for Khan, the Trial Court said, “The convict had forfeited his right to live on account of his despicable act of killing a police officer on duty……”
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