Supreme Court on "Rarest of rare crime"

The Supreme Court recently had occasion to revisit what is the rarest of rare case which deserves capital punshment. The Hindu reported as under:

"Expressing serious concern over dowry death cases where young women are being killed, the Supreme Court has said that such offences are to be treated as the ‘rarest of rare' ones and extreme punishment of death should be awarded to offenders.

A Bench consisting of Justices Markandey Katju and T.S. Thakur said: “Although bride-burning or bride-hanging cases have become common in our country, in our opinion, the expression ‘rarest of rare' does not mean that the act is uncommon, it means that the act is brutal and barbaric. Bride killing is certainly barbaric.” "

Given that the crime we discussed in the blog on 10th Oct. was certainly brutal and barbaric, we reiterate that the accused in that Bengaluru case has to receive only capital punishment.