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INDIA: DEATH PENALTY SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THOSE KILLING FOR DOWRY - SUPREME COURT

October 28, 2010: the Supreme Court of India said that death sentence should be awarded in dowry death and bride burning cases as they fall under the "rarest of rarest" category.
"Although bride burning or bride hanging cases have become common in our country, in our opinion, the expression 'rarest of rare' as referred to in Bachan Singh vs State of Punjab (1980) does not mean that the act is uncommon, it means that the act is brutal and barbaric. Bride killing is certainly barbaric," the bench of Justice Markandeya Katju and Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra said.
“The time has come when we have to stamp out this evil from our society with an iron hand," the bench said. (Sources: DNA, 28/10/2010)