The sisters, Renuka Shinde and Seema Gavit, mercy plea has already been rejected by President in 2014, now they have filed application to commute the death sentence to life imprisonment claiming that delay in execution is causing mental torture to them.
Wednesday, the Bombay High Court has reserved their verdict over Renuka Shinde and Seema Gavit application to commute the death sentence to life imprisonment. In year 2006, Supreme Court has also confirmed death sentence.
The duo claimed in their plea that delay in execution is causing “immense mental torture” to them.
“The extraordinary and unjustified delay in execution of their death sentence has caused immense mental torture, emotional and physical agony to them,” their plea stated as published by Bar and Bench.
The sisters were convicted by Kolhapur trial court in year 2001 for kidnapping 13 children and killing 6 children between year 1990 to 1996. The sisters alongwith their mother were using the children as cover to snatch purses and chains.
Along with the sisters, their mother was also accused in the case but she passed away during pendency of the case.
The matter was presented before the division bench of Justices Nitin M Jamdar and Sarang Kotwal. The sisters in their plea seeking to commute their death sentence to life imprisonment reasoning the “inordinate delay” in execution of their death sentence and to decide their mercy plea.
“The plea filed under Article 226 through advocate Aniket Vagal, sought commutation of death sentence to life imprisonment on the ground of inordinate delay of about 8 years in execution of their death sentence.”, Bar and Bench published it.
After the conviction from the Kolhapur trial court, the sisters approached the Bombay High Court as well while using the available remedies, but the sentence was upheld. In 2006, Supreme court also upheld the sentence.
On this, the men’s rights activists are demanding implementation of the order for such heinous crimes to set an example in front of the society.