Two-judge bench can hear Godhra appeals as HC gave no death penalty: SC

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A three-judge bench has to hear appeals in cases in which the high courts have either confirmed death penalty or awarded it after hearing the appeals of parties but the Gujarat High Court commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment in the present case, it observed.

A Constitution bench of the apex court in September 2014 held a three-judge bench would hear appeals in all such cases in which death penalty was awarded by the high court.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the argument that a three-judge and not a two-judge bench should hear appeals of convicts in the 2002 Godhra train burning case as the issue was of capital punishment.