“‘Realisation is same as jail’: Delhi HC reduces life sentence of 5 JeM terrorists to 10 years, cites Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’”, Opindia, May 21, 2024:
“Referring to a quote from Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s book “Crime and Punishment,” the Delhi High Court on Monday (20th May) altered and decreased the sentence granted to five members of the terror organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM). The court reduced the punishment from life imprisonment to ten years of prison time for the offense under Section 121A of the Indian Penal Code.
A division bench consisting of Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Manoj Jain disposed the appeals filed by Bilal Ahmad Mir, Sajjad Ahmad Khan, Muzaffar Ahmad Bhat, Mehraj-ud-Din Chopan, and Ishfaq Ahmad Bhatt challenging the trial court’s ruling providing them sentences of life imprisonment.
The bench additionally reduced the sentence from life imprisonment to rigorous imprisonment for ten years for violating Section 23 of the UAPA. “The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. We refer to a quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the author of “Crime and Punishment” and in chapter 19, Dostoevsky writes that “if he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake; that will be punishment- as well as the prison,” the court said……”
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