Death Sentence of Man Who Killed Mother, Ate Her Organs, Upheld by Bombay High Court

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday upheld the capital punishment imposed by a Kolhapur court on a man for murdering his mother in 2017 and allegedly eating some of her body parts. The High Court noted that this was a case of cannibalism.

A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Prithviraj Chavan confirmed the death penalty on the convict, Sunil Kuchkoravi, remarking that there was no chance of his reformation.

“The case falls under the rarest of rare category. The convict not only murdered his mother but he also removed her body parts – brain, heart, liver, kidney, intestine and was cooking them on a pan,” the High Court said.

“He had cooked her ribs and was about to cook her heart. This is a case of cannibalism,” it said.

There is no chance of reformation of the convict as there are tendencies of cannibalism, the high court observed.

“If given life imprisonment, he may commit a similar crime in jail,” the bench said.

Kuchkoravi killed his 63-year-old mother Yallama Rama Kuchkoravi on August 28, 2017 at their home in Kolhapur. He chopped her body and ate some organs after frying them in a pan.

Kuchkoravi was sentenced to death by a Kolhapur court in 2021. He is lodged at the Yerwada prison in Pune.