As many as 97 pending circumstances involving homicide and different severe offenses have been ‘recalled’ from the courtroom of Extra District and Periods Choose Ravi Kumar Diwakar in Muzaffarnagar district, days after he awarded 22 loss of life sentences in 10 completely different circumstances over a 4-month interval.
The circumstances had been recalled via an administrative order issued by Muzaffarnagar District & Periods Choose Virendra Kumar Singh. The circumstances embrace offences punishable with loss of life or life imprisonment.
The event comes shortly after Diwakar’s latest judgments awarding report capital punishments made to headlines. Between April and August 2026, he awarded loss of life sentences to 22 convicts in 10 separate circumstances.
The executive order pertains to 97 pending information referring to homicide and different heinous offences. Now, the issues will likely be handled by District & Periods Choose Virendra Kumar Singh himself.
Although the executive order doesn’t state any motive for the recall of the circumstances, the timing of the event is essential because it comes amidst reviews highlighting the unusually excessive variety of loss of life sentences awarded by Choose Diwakar.
It might be famous that the primary of those judgments was pronounced on April 6, when 3 accused had been sentenced to loss of life in reference to the homicide of lawyer Sameer Saifi. 4 extra loss of life sentences had been awarded on April 28 in one other homicide case pertaining to the yr 2019.
On Might 30, he awarded the loss of life penalty to a 50-year-old man for killing a girl and her six-year-old son in a case relationship again practically 15 years.
Thereafter, on June 20, he sentenced 2 individuals to loss of life in reference to the homicide of 1 Rajendra Saini. On July 2, he convicted a person of murdering a house guard on obligation and awarded him the loss of life sentence.
On July 6, he sentenced a former village head and his affiliate to loss of life in a 2010 homicide case over panchayat elections’ enmity. Then, on July 17, he sentenced 4 different males to loss of life for the homicide of a farmer in 2011 throughout an tried theft within the Shamli district.
On August 12, he awarded the loss of life penalty to a person for kidnapping and killing a wooden dealer for ransom practically 27 years in the past. On August 13, 4 folks had been sentenced to loss of life in a 12-year-old homicide case.
By August 13, the variety of loss of life sentences awarded by Choose Diwakar’s courtroom (since April) had reached 22.
It is very important be aware, nevertheless, {that a} loss of life sentence imposed by a Periods Court docket will not be closing and the identical should be confirmed by the Excessive Court docket earlier than it may be executed, as per Sections 407 to 412 of the BNSS.
Choose Diwakar has been posted in Muzaffarnagar since November 2025. He first got here into the highlight in 2022 whereas serving as a civil decide in Varanasi when he ordered a videographic survey of the Gyanvapi Mosque premises in Varanasi.
Choose Diwakar got here again into the highlight in March 2024 when he hailed Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as a main instance of a “spiritual particular person” holding a seat of energy within the State. He additionally likened CM Adityanath to the thought of a ‘Thinker King’ as outlined by Plato in his Socratic dialogue, Republic.
These observations had been made by Choose Diwakar whereas summoning a Muslim cleric and politician, Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan, to face the trial for severe prison expenses, together with ‘try to homicide’, in reference to the communal violence that passed off in Bareilly within the yr 2010. He added that in India, hardly ever has the mastermind who instigated a riot been punished.
Choose Diwakar additional underscored that accused Maulana Tauqeer would have incited one more riot in Bareilly if there have been no Yogi Adityanath Authorities within the state.
Nevertheless, simply days later, the Allahabad High Court EXPUNGED these remarks by observing that it isn’t anticipated of the judicial officer to precise or depict his private or preconceived notions or inclinations within the matter.
“The judicial order is supposed for public consumption and such sort of order is prone to be misconstrued by the plenty. It’s anticipated from judicial officer that he ought to use a really guarded expression whereas focusing upon the difficulty in hand and shouldn’t use any remark that are tangent or alien to the core subject,” the HC had remarked including that his unwarranted remarks contained Political over-tones.
In June 2024, a Special Judge of the NIA Court wrote to the Registrar Normal of the Allahabad Excessive Court docket, looking for safety for Extra District Choose (Quick Observe Court docket), Bareilly, Ravi Kumar Diwakar.
“…from the investigation thus far (within the FIR in opposition to Khan), the very fact is coming to mild {that a} conspiracy is being hatched by Islamic fundamentalist forces to kill the Extra District Choose, Mr. Ravi Kumar Diwakar by declaring him an infidel, which is a really delicate matter”, the letter said.
In December 2024, Choose Diwakar, as Extra Periods Choose (FTC), Bareilly, sentenced a father-son duo to loss of life for killing the daddy’s brother over a property dispute by referring to the selfless love between Lord Rama and Bharata within the Hindu epic Ramayana.
The courtroom noticed that whereas Lord Rama’s brothers Lakshman and Bharata fulfilled their duties as brothers, setting an instance of nice sacrifice and devotion, the actions of the accused, alternatively, starkly distinction with this splendid.
