The High Court of Chhattisgarh has ruled that capital punishment can be imposed only in the “rarest of rare” cases. Where this stringent threshold is not met, the sentence of death is required to be commuted to imprisonment for life, with a further direction that such imprisonment shall continue for the entirety of the convict’s
Capital Punishment Can Be Imposed Only in ‘Rarest of Rare’ Cases, Otherwise Commuted to Natural Life: Chhattisgarh High Court
