MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Tuesday confirmed the death penalty for a man who, in 2021, was convicted of killing his mother, 63, on August 28, 2017, in Kolhapur.
The convict, Sunil Rama Kuchkoravi, had filed an appeal against the conviction and sentence. The HC dismissed his appeal and upheld the capital punishment.
When a trial court hands out a death sentence, it is only executable once the HC confirms it, and hence the State’s confirmation case was filed in 2021 after the sessions court in Kolhapur had sentenced him to death by hanging.
Kuchkoravi, now 38, represented by advocate Yug Chaudhry, will appeal to the Apex Court.
The prosecution case, argued by additional public prosecutor Prajakta Shinde, was that the man killed his mother after she refused to give him money to buy liquor.
The trial court Judge Mahesh Jadhav had held it to be the “rarest of rare case’’ mandating the death sentence. The HC found no flaw with the trial court ruling.
The police investigating the case said they had resorted to forensic evidence and DNA tests to match the body parts with that of the slain woman. Twelve eyewitnesses testified for the prosecution. The prosecution highlighted the murder site and the condition of the dead body to cite them as cogent evidence for what it said was a “most cruel’’ case.
The HC had reserved the appeal and confirmation case for judgment on Aug 8. A division bench comprising Justice Revati Mohite Dere and Justice Prithviraj Chavan pronounced the judgment on Tuesday, and the reasoned detailed judgment copy will be available soon.