Who is mahendra nath das

I am very happy today. Mahendra Nath Das had moved the Supreme Court after the Gauhati high court turned down a writ petition filed by his mother to commute his death sentence to life imprisonment, on the plea that he had been kept confined in the death row for years due to the delay in disposal of his mercy petition by the President of India. Immediately after committing the crime, Das had surrendered before the police, along with the murder weapon, a machete, and the severed head of the victim.

The death sentence was later confirmed by the high court in February and subsequently upheld by the Supreme Court in May Sign in Create a Rediffmail account.

Amal Das, son of the slain Hara Kanta Das, believes that his father was killed because he stood up to the accused. He used to demand exorbitant amounts as fee from truck drivers. My father spoke up against this and was killed.

Since he got away with his earlier murder, it encouraged him to commit the murder of my father as well. A businessman, Amal added that Das was a hardened criminal. Even after killing Ranjan Das, in , he went scot-free as the police failed to file a charge-sheet against him within the stipulated 90 days.

A trial court sentenced Das to life imprisonment. He was granted bail during the pendency of the trial, the same time he killed Hara Kanta Das. Assam murder convict MN Das thanks God. Mahendra Kumar Das had beheaded another man and surrendered with the victim's head on April 24, Tags death penalty Mahendra Nath Das murder supreme court.