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The Madras High Court today ordered notice to the Centre on a PIL challenging constitutional validity of a particular section in an act covering maritime offences that prescribes death penalty as the only punishment for certain offences.<\/p>\n

Ordering notice to the Union Home and Law ministries, a bench comprising justices S.Nagamuthu and M V Muralidharan of the Madurai bench posted the PIL for hearing after two weeks.<\/p>\n

Petitioner R Rameez Ajmalkhan in his PIL challenged the Constitutional validity of Sec 3(1)(g)(I) of Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against Safety of Maritime Navigation Fixed Platform Continental Shelf Act 2002.<\/p>\n

Stating that the act prescribed death penalty as the only punishment for offences that led to the death of a person, he contended that this was against Article 21 of the Constitution (Protection of life and personal liberty).<\/p>\n

Whereas Sec 3(1)(a) to 3(1)(f) of the act listed out various offences that could be perpetrated against a ship, or maritime navigational facilities and prescribed different terms of imprisonment.<\/p>\n

Hence, such a prescription (of capital punishment) without paving the way for judicial discretion to impose alternative or lesser punishment was against the Constitution, fundamental and human rights, the petitioner submitted.<\/p>\n

The Indian Penal Code also prescribed death sentence for certain offences but gave discretion to the judge to impose lesser punishment.<\/p>\n

Even the Supreme Court has ruled that death sentence should be imposed only in the rarest of rare cases, he pointed out.<\/p>\n

( Source – PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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