Srinagar, July 29 -- Principal Sessions Judge Kulgam, Aijaz Ahmed Khan, while announcing the quantum of punishment observed that justice demands that courts should impose punishment befitting the crime, reflecting public abhorrence of the crime.

"The courts must not only keep in view the rights of the criminal but also the rights of the victim of crime and the society at large while considering imposition of appropriate punishment," the court said underling that undue sympathy to impose inadequate sentence would do more harm to the justice system to undermine the public confidence in the efficacy of law and society could not long endure under such serious threats.

"It is, therefore, the duty of every Court to award proper sentence havin...