https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=456740 Capital sentencing must reserve death for the rarest of rare cases where life imprisonment is unquestionably foreclosed. Aggravating factors relate to the crime and mitigating factors to the criminal, so they cannot be mechanically weighed on a balance sheet. Sentencing must be principled rather than judge-centric, and standardisation of crimes has limited value. Remission is a statutory process subject to procedural and substantive safeguards, requiring case-by-case consideration with judicial input, and life imprisonment cannot be treated as a fixed notional term for remission purposes. Applying these principles, the death penalty was not sustained and was converted into imprisonment for life. en-us Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 12 May 2026 12:41:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=456740 Capital sentencing must reserve death for the rarest of rare cases where life imprisonment is unquestionably foreclosed. Aggravating factors relate to the crime and mitigating factors to the criminal, so they cannot be mechanically weighed on a balance sheet. Sentencing must be principled rather than judge-centric, and standardisation of crimes has limited value. Remission is a statutory process subject to procedural and substantive safeguards, requiring case-by-case consideration with judicial input, and life imprisonment cannot be treated as a fixed notional term for remission purposes. Applying these principles, the death penalty was not sustained and was converted into imprisonment for life. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=456740