Asafak Alam, the migrant labourer from Bihar, happens to be the only convict to be given capital punishment in Kerala this year.
K. Soman, Additional District and Sessions Judge, Ernakulam, who is also the special judge for trial of cases relating to atrocities and sexual violence against women and children, gave Alam the death sentence after he was convinced that the case belonged to the ‘rarest of rare’ for which the death penalty could be prescribed.
Last year, the Additional District Court-II, Mavelikkara, gave the death penalty to Lablu Hussain, a Bangladesh native, for brutally killing an elderly couple at Venmony, near Chengannur, in 2019.
