‘My daughter had a future too’, mother of 4-year-old rape-murder victim asks SC to restore death penalty

A evaluation petition has been filed within the Supreme Courtroom in opposition to its April 19 judgment, which commuted the loss of life penalty awarded to a person for rape and homicide of about four-year-old lady, saying “each sinner has a future”.

The plea filed by the mom of the sufferer by way of advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava contended, “My little daughter, who was deceitfully kidnapped, brutally raped and viciously murdered by Mohd Firoz, additionally had a future.”

The highest court docket had commuted the loss of life sentence, saying it’s important to provide a possibility to the offender to restore the injury induced, and to turn out to be a socially helpful particular person, when he’s launched from the jail.

The plea stated, “The petitioner’s three-year and eight-month outdated harmless daughter additionally had a future. Nonetheless, she was deceitfully kidnapped, brutally raped and viciously murdered by the convict in essentially the most brutal, diabolic, merciless, wicked and ugly method.”

The plea contended that the petitioner and her deceased daughter will solely get justice when the loss of life penalty awarded to the accused Mohd Firoz can be restored. 

In its judgement, the court docket had stated, “One of many primary ideas of restorative justice as developed by this court docket through the years, is also to provide a possibility to the offender to restore the injury induced, and to turn out to be a socially helpful particular person, when he’s launched from the jail.”

The plea claimed the judgment appeared to have missed that the sentencing coverage should be befitting to the character of crime and deterrent with an specific intention to make an instance out of the evil-doer and a warning to those that are nonetheless harmless.