The Bombay High Court, hearing the death sentence confirmation petition of ST bus driver Santosh Mane, on Thursday said it will have to consider his mental status at the time of the incident and not whether he was undergoing treatment for insanity.
Mane (40) was awarded the death penalty by aPune sessions' court last December for mowing down nine people and injuring 37 others after he ran amok with the bus.
Mane had challenged the lower court's verdict on grounds that he suffered from mental illness and was undergoing treatment for the same.
Advocate Jagdish Mane, appearing for the convict, said that while the prosecution claims that the motive behind Mane going on a rampage was because he was overworked.
"There is medical evidence to show that Mane was undergoing treatment," he said.
The court then said that the fact that he was undergoing treatment is not of paramount importance. "We want to know his mental condition at the time of the incident," the court said.
On January 25, 2012, Mane hijacked an empty ST bus from Swargate depot and sped off on the wrong side of the road ploughing through vehicles and pedestrians.
Mane (40) was awarded the death penalty by aPune sessions' court last December for mowing down nine people and injuring 37 others after he ran amok with the bus.
Mane had challenged the lower court's verdict on grounds that he suffered from mental illness and was undergoing treatment for the same.
Advocate Jagdish Mane, appearing for the convict, said that while the prosecution claims that the motive behind Mane going on a rampage was because he was overworked.
"There is medical evidence to show that Mane was undergoing treatment," he said.
The court then said that the fact that he was undergoing treatment is not of paramount importance. "We want to know his mental condition at the time of the incident," the court said.
On January 25, 2012, Mane hijacked an empty ST bus from Swargate depot and sped off on the wrong side of the road ploughing through vehicles and pedestrians.
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