While acknowledging the sentiments during the Pran Pratishtha Mahotsav, the Court expressed concern that blocking the route to the High Court constitutes interference in the administration of justice.
The Court awarded the lesser sentence of life imprisonment after observing that Kumar was about 23 years at the time of the crime and that he had a one-year-old daughter and wife.
The Rajasthan High Court made the remark while acquitting a man and a woman who were accused of being in an illicit relationship, leading to the murder of the woman's mother-in-law for objecting to the affair.