The verdict Of Priyadarshini Mattoo came on 06.10.2010.The Supreme Court Bench had observed that this case cannot fall into the cetegory of the rarerest of the rare cases and the offender Mr. Santosh Kumar Singh was awarded life imprisonment,a lenient view.Earlier to this the lower court judge had obsevred that although the judge is quite confident that Mr. Santosh Kumar Singh is the real killer of Priyadarshini Mattoo ,he has to acquit him for want of certain evidences and the judge instead of putting pressure on the Police force to provide enough evidences found it convenient to acquit Mr.Santosh Kumar Singh .The Judge thought he is not answerable to any body and actually that was the end of the case.
It was due to the hue and cry raised every where and due to the media pressure that the case was taken up by high court and the high court had put pressure on the Police to dig out the evidences and the High court had observed that Mr. Santosh Kumar is the Killer beyond any shadow of doubt and being the son of a DGP should be more respectful to law and bcz of his shady attitude he deserved punishment nothing less than the death penality
Mr Santosh Kumar Singh who him self is a lawer should no the implication of law and he moved the case to Supreme court.By that time Mr. Santosh Kumar Singh had studied all the illegalities of the law for all these 14 long yrs that he is the father of a small daghter which deserved a lenient treatment from the court.Even though he was stalking the girl for two yrs and also he had given to Police in writing that that he would mend his ways and in spite of all this he did the merciless killing and the court was so lenient that the death penalty was reduced to Life imprisonment
Mr. Santosh Kumar Singh was a practicing lawyer but he had no respect for the law of the land and committed a crime which ordinary person would not dare to do .He ignored all the chances given to him by police to mend his ways.He entered the house of the girl with the pretext that he wanted to resolve all the previous issues and to make peace with her.But actually in stead of making peace with her,he raped her killed her and crushed her head with the helmet he was having and ran away and Bench of the apex Court had observed that this case cannot be considered as the rarest of the rare cases and reduced the death penality to life imprisonment
Mr. Santosh Kumar Singh is the son of a retired Director General of Police.The DGP has to ensure that law and order is maintained in the area allotted to him.It is not that he would go on putting the illegal elements in the prisons.the DGP has to educate the people and the illegality has to be reduced by coercive means otherwise in what way the DGP is superior to any ASI or SI.He is supposed to educate the people to know the power of law.In this argument Mr. Santosh Kumar Singh’s father did not set his house in order and the retired DGP has miserably failed in discharging his duties towards the country and should be penalized
