New Delhi: Arguing that the crime committed by Shahzad Ahmad, convicted for his role in the 2008 Batla House encounter, falls under the rarest of rare cases, the prosecution has asked the court to award him the death sentence.
On 26 July the court convicted Shahzad of firing at police officials and causing death of police officer MC Sharma in the controversial encounter case.
Murder in the rarest of rare cases is punishable with the death penalty.
Making the case that there were no mitigating circumstances that called for a more lenient sentence, the public prosecutor argued, "Despite the police party entering the house after identifying themselves, they were fired upon...the police had no motive other than to apprehend the occupants."
"If they had any other intention they would have called for a larger force and not ventured without a bullet-proof jacket as inspector MC Sharma did," the prosecutor said.
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