Strongly reacting to the recent Supreme Court judgement which commuted death penalty of the convict, who brutally raped a 23-year-old pregnant woman and killed her mother-in-law in a case here in 2007, the victim's family on Sunday said the perpetrator of the crime had " no right to live".
The apex court has commuted the death sentence of the convict Sandesh Abhang who killed the 65 year old woman in a barbaric act, chopping off her fingers and later stabbing her repeatedly. He later raped her pregnant daughter-in-law.
Speaking on behalf of the family, advocate D Y Jadhav, who had fought the case as public prosecutor in Pune sessions court which had awarded death penalty to the accused -- later upheld in High court--, told reporters here, "This was one of the rarest of the rare cases. My client was very keen on death penalty to the perpetrator of the heinous crime and is disappointed".
