Muzaffarnagar:
A choose of a fast-track courtroom in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar has made headlines by delivering verdicts in 10 instances within the final 4 months, sentencing 22 people to dying.
The courtroom of Extra District and Periods Decide Ravi Kumar Diwakar, who was earlier within the information for passing the order to conduct a videography survey of Varanasi’s Gyanvapi complicated in 2022, is understood for his sturdy verdicts.
A resident of Lucknow, the 46-year-old began as a further civil choose in Azamgarh in 2009. He was then elevated as a civil choose in Sultanpur in Might 2015 and as a judicial Justice of the Peace about 5 months later.
Decide Diwakar, who has a BCom and an LLM diploma, has been serving as the extra district and periods choose in Muzaffarnagar since November 2025.
His current judgments
Sentenced 4 to dying in 12-year-old homicide case
On August 13, he sentenced 4 folks to dying in a 12-year-old homicide case. He additionally imposed a nice of Rs 1.70 lakh on the convicts — Ramvir, Rajiv, Rahul and Harender Kumar — after holding them responsible for the homicide of Pawan Kumar. The accused had entered Kumar’s home and opened hearth throughout an assault allegedly stemming from outdated rivalry in Shamli district on July 14, 2014.
Kumar was killed within the firing, whereas his brother, Ashok Kumar, sustained bullet accidents.
Dying penalty to man for killing wooden dealer for ransom in 1999
On August 12, he awarded the dying penalty to a person for kidnapping and killing a wooden dealer for ransom almost 27 years in the past.
He held Shahnawaz, the convict, responsible for murdering Saleem in 1999. Saleem was kidnapped for a ransom of Rs 5 lakh and later killed by slitting his throat in a jungle in Chapar on December 9, 1999.
Sentenced 4 to dying in 2011 farmer homicide case
On July 17, he sentenced 4 males to dying for the homicide of a farmer in 2011 throughout an tried theft within the Shamli district.
The farmer, Raj Singh, was travelling on a bike along with his good friend, Bijendra, to his sister’s home on August 20, 2011, after they have been intercepted by unidentified assailants. The accused tried to rob them. Raj Singh was shot lifeless after he resisted, whereas Bijendra was tied up and thrown into a close-by sugarcane subject.
Sentenced ex-village head, his affiliate to dying in homicide case
On July 6, he sentenced a former village head and his affiliate to dying in a 2010 homicide case. He noticed that the case fell within the rarest of uncommon instances.
Rajbir Singh, 60, was shot lifeless over panchayat elections’ enmity on August 24, 2010. The previous village head, Pramod, and his affiliate, Sahdev, have been later arrested for the homicide.
Dying penalty for killing house guard on obligation
On July 2, Decide Ravi Kumar Diwakar convicted a person of murdering a house guard on obligation and awarded him the dying sentence, holding that the case fell within the “rarest of uncommon” class.
He noticed that the homicide was dedicated in circumstances warranting the utmost punishment. The incident happened on June 4, 2020, when the house guard, Ratiram, was on obligation. He intervened to rescue the accused’s mom after he allegedly assaulted her.
Enraged, the accused, Deepak, stabbed Ratiram to dying.
2 sentenced to dying in homicide case
On June 20, he sentenced two individuals — Gajendra and Ramkiran — to dying in reference to the homicide of Rajendra Saini.
He had noticed that the case fell into the rarest of uncommon instances.
50-year-old man will get dying penalty in 15-year-old double-murder case
On Might 30, his fast-track courtroom awarded dying penalty to a 50-year-old man for killing a lady and her six-year-old son in a case courting again almost 15 years.
He noticed that the case fell within the “rarest of uncommon” class, warranting capital punishment.
The victims, Rajesh Devi (30) and her son Himanshu, have been murdered within the Mazaffarnagar district on November 7, 2011. In keeping with the prosecution, Rahis took Rajesh Devi and the kid to a close-by sugarcane subject and killed them by repeatedly hitting them with bricks after an argument. Their our bodies have been discovered on November 13.
Dying sentence to girl, her 3 sons in 2019 homicide case
On April 28, Decide Diwakar sentenced a lady and her three sons to dying in a 2019 homicide case.
Sentenced 3 to dying in 2019 homicide case
On April 6, the Muzaffarnagar fast-track courtroom awarded a dying sentence to a few individuals in reference to the kidnapping and homicide of a lawyer in 2019.
In keeping with the prosecution, the sufferer, lawyer Mohammad Sameer, was kidnapped and later killed over a financial dispute of Rs 45 lakh on October 15, 2019.
In the course of the investigation, police discovered that the accused had disposed of the physique at one other location with the assistance of one of many accused. The physique was later recovered from a forest space in Sikri village.
(With PTI inputs)
