The Allahabad High Court has upheld the death sentence awarded to a man convicted for the murder of a police inspector in Farrukhabad district of Uttar Pradesh.
A division bench, comprising Justice A K Tripathi and Justice A K Mishra, dismissed the appeal filed by Pappu alias Chandra Kumar and confirmed the death penalty awarded by the sessions judge of on March 30, 2015.
The state government's advocate Akhilesh Singh had contended that the nature of crime commited by the accused fell in the category of 'rarest of rare cases'.
He argued that inspector Raj Kumar Singh was shot dead when he had gone to arrest the accused in connection with a crime and the gun used by the latter was recovered.
The inspector was murdered on November 29, 2014 in Kotwali police station area of Farrukhabad while the accused was arrested on the spot by other police officials accompanying the slain inspector.
