New Delhi, 23/4: The Supreme Court has said that if courts showed undue leniency in sentencing of convicts, it would shake public confidence in the criminal justice system, while taking away the deterrent effect and affecting the rights of the victim and his family members.
A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Rajesh Bindal modified sentence of the whole of the biological life of an appellant, Kashi Nath Singh alias Kallu Singh without any benefit of remission in a case of brutal rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl in Dhanbad on November 3, 2007.
However, taking a tough view, the bench directed the appellant should not be released from jail until he completed 30 years imprisonment excluding the period already served by him.