A Delhi court Thursday urged parliament to award capital punishment in cases where a senior citizen is the victim.<\/p>\n
Additional Sessions Judge Narinder Kumar said: “This court feels that our wise representatives in the parliament should provide for capital punishment in such cases also where senior citizens are the victims, so as to teach a lesson to the offenders and to deter others from indulging in crime against senior citizens.”<\/p>\n
The court’s observation came while awarding 10 years rigorous imprisonment to Sunil Kumar and Arjun Sharma in a robbery case. The court ruled that law has to change with the passage of time.<\/p>\n
The court said that the victim was a senior citizen aged 70. “The manner in which the old helpless lady was blindfolded, confined in the bathroom and robbed, gives a jolt to the judicial conscience of the court,” said judge Kumar.<\/p>\n
The court added that day and night senior citizens are being targeted by criminals.<\/p>\n
“We cannot say that senior citizens are fully safe. State is duty bound to ensure them safety,” said the court.<\/p>\n
The court said that the object is to maintain peace in the society and punish the wrongdoers.<\/p>\n
The court recommended that if the present remedy to prevent or curb such crimes is inadequate, the concerned authorities have to ponder over for a better remedy.<\/p>\n
“Even a doctor would enhance the dose of the drug to provide relief to his patient. After all, epidemics require urgent and serious remedies,” said the court.<\/p>\n
According to the prosecution case, on May 19, 2009 evening, Kumar and Sharma with Ravi(absconding) trespassed in the elderly woman’s house in Karol Bagh.<\/p>\n
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