A day after sentencing him to prison term for entire life in one of three murder cases against him, Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau handed down capital punishment to Chandrakant Jha, a native of Madhepura in Bihar, saying the case fulfils all the criteria in the rarest of rare category as his act was shocking to the community.
"He has committed cold-blooded murder in a most diabolic manner. He is a menace to the society. He had challenged the system and to do so he committed murders of innocent victims," the judge said while pronouncing the punishment.
Jha was today sentenced to death in the second of the three murder cases in which he has been convicted. Yesterday, the same court had sentenced him to life imprisonment till his death in another case of murder, in which also he had chopped off the head and limbs of the victim and had dumped the body near Tihar Jail here.
Jha, who had appeared calm yesterday, looked nervous as the court awarded the maximum punishment for his crime.
While pronouncing the sentence, the court said, "After committing the crime, Jha talked of repeating it again and again by challenging the police that he would keep on sending such special gifts (bodies) to it after every 15 days."
In this case, Jha had murdered one Upender in 2007 and had dumped his body outside the jail after chopping off the head and limbs.
The other two murder cases are also similar in which he had killed one Anil in 2006 and another person whom Jha referred to as Dalip in 2007.
The sentencing in the remaining murder case against him will be pronounced tomorrow. (More)
