HC upholds death term of man who killed kids

Six years after a man killed his wife’s two minor nephews in a most brutal manner, the Delhi High Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence awarded to him by a trial court in 2007.

Six years after a man killed his wife’s two minor nephews in a most brutal manner, the Delhi High Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence awarded to him by a trial court in 2007.

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Rajesh Kumar (43) had smashed nine-month-old Harshit’s head on the floor and slit the throat of his brother Anshul (5) with a broken piece of glass.

All this was done while their mother was home.

“The offence committed by the accused would shake the confidence of the people in a social institution...the crime was committed in a most diabolical and horrendous manner showing extreme depravity,” said a bench headed by Justice Pradeep Nandrajog.

The prosecution said Kumar killed the children as their father Mukesh Sethi had refused to help him financially.