Bombay High Court Upholds Death Sentence Of Man For Killing His Mother, Eating Her Organs

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence awarded to a man, who brutally killed his own mother and later ate her organs.

A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Prithviraj Chavan pronounced the judgment in the open court while the appellant Sunil Kuchkoravi was produced through video conferencing facility.

"This is a rarest of rare case, wherein the appellant not only killed his mother but removed her organs like brain, heart etc and was about to cook the same on a stove. This is cannibalism. Thus, we have upheld your death sentence, as awarded to you by the sessions court," Justice Chavan told Kuchkoravi.

Notably, the appellant Sunil Kuchkoravi was convicted and sentenced to death by a sessions court in Kolhapur in July 2021 saying that the incident had shaken the "collective conscience of the society". The sessions court further observed that the present case was associated with "extreme brutality and shamelessness".

Kuchkoravi killed his mother in August 2017 and soon after that a neighborhood child found him standing near his mother's body, covered in blood stains. He was thereafter, arrested by the police.