HC to decide fate of 2 sisters on death row
Mumbai: 19.12.2021
The Bombay high court on Saturday concluded the hearing and will soon decide the fate of two death row convicts, both women, who in 2014 had filed a petition to commute their capital punishment to life imprisonment. They cited “unjustified delay” by authorities in dealing with their mercy petition, causing them much agony and violation of their fundamental right to life.
The women, sisters Renuka Shinde and Seema Gavit, were tried for the 1996 case of kidnapping 14 children and murdering five of them in Kolhapur and convicted in 2001. In 2004, the high court had confirmed their death sentence and in 2006 the Supreme Court too had upheld the noose for them. They have been in custody since October 22, 1996. TNN
