Sentenced to 80 years back in 2015 for the murder of taxi driver Bhomeshwar Sukhdeo, whose burnt remains had been dumped on the Mocha Access Road in January 2010, Balram Singh has appealed both his conviction and sentence.
In his appeal which is set to come up for hearing on March 1st, Singh (the appellant), argues among other things that trial Judge Navindra Singh imposed a sentence which was “manifestly excessive.”
He said that the judge commenced the sentence at a base of 60 years for which there is no basis to support in law or otherwise.