Dhaka, Sept. 16 -- In the full text of a verdict the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has observed that for the appropriate deterrent punishment conforming to the gravity of the offence and consistent with the public abhorrence for the heinous offence committed by the convicts, it also needs to meet the society's reasonable expectation from court.

It also observed that it is the legal obligation of the Court to award a punishment that is just and fair by administering justice tempered with such mercy not only as the criminal may justly deserve, it is but the right of the victim to have the assailant appropriately punished is protected.

Upholding the death sentence of two convicts, including a former teacher of Rajshahi University...