he Supreme Court has ruled that social and economic backwardness is one of the mitigating circumstances while commuting the death sentence of two convicts to life imprisonment.
The convicts Mulla and Guddu along with others had abducted five villagers and murdered them in cold blood on December 21, 1995 when they failed to meet their demands ransom of Rs 10,000 each. The victims were Hari Kumar Tripathi, Nanhakey, Ram Kishore, Chhotakkey and a woman Gangadai.
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