The Supreme Court today commuted the death sentence of MA Antony, convicted in the Aluva murder case, to life imprisonment..Antony was convicted for killing a six-member family back in January 2001. A Special CBI Court found him guilty of offences punishable under Sections 302 (murder), 379 (theft), 380 (theft in dwelling house), 449 (trespass into a house to commit offences punishable with death) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code. He was awarded the death sentence for his crimes..The Kerala High Court upheld the death sentence in 2006, following which Antony appealed to the Supreme Court. The appeal was dismissed in 2009. He also preferred a mercy petition before the President of India, which was dismissed in 2015..A review petition was later filed in the Supreme Court. In April 2016, the Supreme Court Bench headed by former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra stayed the execution of Antony’s death sentence..The matter eventually came up for hearing before the Bench of Justices Madan Lokur, Abdul Nazeer and Deepak Gupta, which reserved its judgment last week. And now, the Court has commuted Antony’s death sentence to life imprisonment..Read the judgment below.
The Supreme Court today commuted the death sentence of MA Antony, convicted in the Aluva murder case, to life imprisonment..Antony was convicted for killing a six-member family back in January 2001. A Special CBI Court found him guilty of offences punishable under Sections 302 (murder), 379 (theft), 380 (theft in dwelling house), 449 (trespass into a house to commit offences punishable with death) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code. He was awarded the death sentence for his crimes..The Kerala High Court upheld the death sentence in 2006, following which Antony appealed to the Supreme Court. The appeal was dismissed in 2009. He also preferred a mercy petition before the President of India, which was dismissed in 2015..A review petition was later filed in the Supreme Court. In April 2016, the Supreme Court Bench headed by former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra stayed the execution of Antony’s death sentence..The matter eventually came up for hearing before the Bench of Justices Madan Lokur, Abdul Nazeer and Deepak Gupta, which reserved its judgment last week. And now, the Court has commuted Antony’s death sentence to life imprisonment..Read the judgment below.
