It is a bizare scenerio. Neither can you hang him and, hold your breath, nor you can give him a life sentance. The Hon'ble SC holds that a life sentance is meant for life. Therefor, You can not restrict it to 25 years as portugal wants it...at the same time India cannot afford to violate the terms of extradiction either. If she does, she would lose credibility and face charges in the International Court of Justice. Now, if you do not give him life sentance...what else is there to give ? Does the IPC allow any other forms of punishment for murder ?? It will be a very very interesting trial to watch indeed.
We are all concerned for the life of an accused, however it is time we start speaking for the innocent people who died due to actions of these who are known criminals, extortionists and terorrists. History has proved that nothing is a better deterrent to a criminal than the fear of severe punishment. Hence we need to implement severest punishment to the guilty without any guilt on our conscience, as this will eventually help the innocent of our society. The laws of Saudi Arabia may sound barbaric, but serve the purpose for which they are created. The laws of our country are a bad joke which is played upon the innocent people of this country repeatedly and we are mere spectators to this mockery of our existence. Unfortunately the philosphy of tolerance has been so deeply ingrained in to our pscyhe that it has reduced our self respect also to outright humiliation. If we want to set things right for our coming generations we need to learn to live with self respect and know how to achieve this goal without being emotional. We need to get out of our mindset whereby humiliation is very often accepted as KARMA.
Absolutely not. He has been extradited by Portugal on the condition that he wont be awarded dealth penalty or more than 25 years of imprisonment. So, we should honour that understanding or else no country will ever extradite criminals to India.
If found guilty, he must be awarded 25 years of rigorous imprisonment, the highest possible in the given situation.
I think if govt of india has promised to Portugal a spverign promise we should not back out. But we cant even forgive Abu with light sentence for what he has has done. Only solution to me is AB TAK CHAPPAN treatment. We should give him an opportunity to try for jail break or something similar and kill him in encounter.
According to me the best punishment is by not hanging him, but to jail him for full 25 Years and to keep him in jail alone and dont allow anybody to meet him so that he can repent to the wrong he did.
