D. B. Murder Reference No.01/2022 has been registered
on the basis of the communication dated 06 th August 2022
from the Additional Sessions Judge (Atrocities against Women
cases), Bhilwara for confirmation of the sentence of death
awarded to Sharafat son of Salim Khan and Rajesh Kumar
son of Ratan Lal in Sessions Case No.12/2015 (35/2021).
These convict-appellants have preferred D.B. Criminal Appeal
No.126/2022 to lay a challenge to the judgment of conviction
under sections 364, 302 and 201 read with section 34 of the
Indian Penal Code delivered on 30th July 2022 and the order
of sentence passed against them on 06th August 2022.
2. On 06th August 2022, the Additional Sessions Judge
heard the convict-appellants on the point of sentence and
passed the order of sentence of death against them. The
Additional Sessions Judge considered the aggravating and
mitigating circumstances in the case and arrived at a
conclusion that the aggravating circumstances against the
convict-appellants outweigh the mitigating circumstances in
their favor and the crime committed by them falls under the
category of rarest of the rare case. While deciding to award
the sentence of death to the convict-appellants, the
Additional Sessions Judge held that the convict-appellants are
menace to the society who cannot be let off free and it would
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pose a serious danger to the society if they are rehabilitated
in the society.