Allahabad High Court commutes death sentence of father, son in 19-year old murder case

The Allahabad High Court commuted the death sentence of a father-son duo convicted in a 2005 double murder case to life imprisonment. The court upheld their conviction but ruled that the case did not qualify as a ‘rarest of rare’ to warrant the death penalty. The case involved the murder of Krishna Kumar Gupta and his son Kapil over a property dispute. The court noted that the case was based on circumstantial evidence and that the convicts had no prior criminal history. The court emphasized that the death penalty should be reserved for the most heinous cases, opting for life imprisonment instead.