{"id":288,"date":"2004-04-16T15:04:25","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T19:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/04\/16\/justice-in-butcher-of-trilokpuri-cas"},"modified":"2004-04-16T15:04:25","modified_gmt":"2004-04-16T19:04:25","slug":"justice-in-butcher-of-trilokpuri-case-becomes-chief-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/04\/16\/justice-in-butcher-of-trilokpuri-case-becomes-chief-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice in &#8220;Butcher of Trilokpuri&#8221; Case becomes Chief Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a177'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Justice Rajendra Babu has been <A href=\"http:\/\/www.newkerala.com\/news-daily\/news\/features.php?action=fullnews&amp;id=12035\">appointed<\/A><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> as India&#x2019;s next chief justice.&nbsp; Justice Babu and Justice Nanavati were responsible for commuting the death sentence of Kishori Lal, known as the &#x201C;butcher of Trilokpuri&#x201D; for his role in killing at least eight Sikh men during the pogroms against Sikhs in 1984.&nbsp; Despite the evidence demonstrating the organized nature of the carnage, their opinion stated that the massacre was spontaneous, that Kishori Lal merely picked up a weapon that was &#x201C;close by&#x201D; (despite evidence of the systematic distribution of weapons), and that the mob&#x2019;s collective fury mitigated Kishori Lal&#x2019;s intent to kill.&nbsp; They also excused his failure to respect the Indian Constitution, stating that in such moments, one could not expect mobs to abide by such high ideals.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">The <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/newsItems\/departments\/1984\">1984 section<\/A> of the blog has recent news relating to the Nanavati Commission and court cases drawing from the 1984 pogroms.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Rajendra Babu has been appointed as India&#x2019;s next chief justice.&nbsp; Justice Babu and Justice Nanavati were responsible for commuting the death sentence of Kishori Lal, known as the &#x201C;butcher of Trilokpuri&#x201D; for his role in killing at least eight Sikh men during the pogroms against Sikhs in 1984.&nbsp; Despite the evidence demonstrating the organized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1472"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}