19 December 2012 :

the Delhi High Court, India, reduced the death penalty, awarded to a businessman for killing his wife and two kids, to life imprisonment saying that despite the shocking crime it cannot be said that the convict is irredeemable as a human being.
A bench comprising Justices S Ravinder Bhat and Pratibha Rani while reducing the death penalty of Naveen Ahuja to life term, observed that though the crime committed by the appellant is heartless, it cannot be said that death penalty is the only sentence which can be awarded to him for such crime.
Ahuja was awarded death penalty by a trial court in October 2010 which had ruled that life imprisonment was inadequate punishment for him as the case was one among the rarest of rare case.
Prosecution had told the trial court that on July 8, 2005, Ahuja killed his wife and two children and later surrendered to police saying that he was undergoing financial problems and found no other solution but to kill the family.
He had confessed his crime before the police and surrendered saying that he had committed the act in a fit of rage.