Bombay High Court allows death row convict to attend daughter's wedding

The Bombay High Court on Monday permitted a man sentenced to death for killing and eviscerating his mother in an inebriated state with an intention to eat her to attend his daughters wedding for three daysA division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and P D Naik directed the authorities at Kolhapur jail where the man is lodged to take him to his house from 9 am to 6 pm on three days February 23 to February 25The convict Sunil Kuchkoravi pronounced guilty by a Kolhapur sessions court in the 2021 murder case with his death sentence awaiting confirmation had sought temporary bail for one week from the HC to attend the weddingThe court said while in capital punishment cases the convicts are not entitled to temporary bail or other reliefs like parole or furlough it was inclined to allow the convict in the present matter to be taken to his house for three days as his daughter was getting marriedAlso readMumbai weather update With temperatures above 37 degrees C IMD issues heatwave alert for next two daysWhen the court queried as to why death sentence was imposed in the murder case and if it was a brutal killing Kuchkoravis lawyer Yug Chaudhari said the convict had in an inebriated state killed his mother and removed her organs and kept them on a tableWhen the court sought to know the motive behind the crime Chaudhari said it was not cleariquestWe dont know the motive Even his family is shocked He was a wonderful man they all say Unblemished record He used to have frequent headaches so he used to consume liquoriquest Chaudhari told the benchThe prosecution case was that Kuchkoravi killed his mother and then eviscerated her with an intention to eat her organsChaudhari on Monday pointed out that the convict comes from poor financial background and hence can not afford to pay escort charges incurred on police personnel taking him to the wedding venueThe HC then exempted the convict from paying escort charges and directed the competent authority of the Maharashtra government to make the necessary payments to policemen who will escort himiquestWe are allowing him to be taken out of prison for three days only because it is his daughters weddingiquest the court observedA sessions judge in Kolhapur in south Maharashtra had convicted and sentenced Kuchkoravi to death for offence of murder in July 2021The sessions judge had then remarked the case falls in the category of rarest of rare as it shook the conscience of societyThe state government had filed a sentence confirmation plea before the HC in 2021 itself The confirmation plea was yet to be heardThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever