Madras High Court Sets Aside Life Sentence Of CISF Jawan Who Killed 3 Colleagues
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The judges also ordered an additional Rs three lakh compensation, besides the already paid compensation of Rs 10 lakh each to the families of the victims and Rs 2 lakh each to the injured persons.
The Madras High Court has set aside a lower court order awarding life term to a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) jawan for gunning down three of his colleagues and injuring two others in 2014 at the Kalpakkam nuclear power plant, after invoking Section 84 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which deals with the ''act of a person of unsound mind."
A bench of Justice PN Prakash and Justice RN Manjula set aside the lower court order of 2018 and directed the transfer of the appellant, Vijay Pratap Singh to Government Mental Hospital in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, forthwith.
The judges also ordered an additional Rs three lakh compensation, besides the already paid compensation of Rs 10 lakh each to the families of the victims and Rs 2 lakh each to the injured persons.
It also made a recommendation to Union Finance and Home Ministries to sanction extraordinary family pension to the families of the three victims.
