Uttar Pradesh: Judge who awarded 36 death sentences in 16 months, transferred to family court

Judge Diwakar was transferred to Muzaffarnagar on Nov 29, 2025. He was the presiding officer of fast track Court 3 and heard criminal cases from Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts. On September 7, he pronounced his 23rd death sentence in Muzaffarnagar. This was for a man who had been convicted of burning his wife alive, said a report in the Times of India.

New Delhi: Judge Ravi Kumar Diwakar, who awarded 36 death sentences in just 16 months, in 2 different courts has been transferred to the family court in Muzzafarnagar. He made headlines for awarding 23 death sentences in just 11 cases in Muzaffarnagar between April and September this year. The rest of the 13 cases where he awarded death sentences were in Bareilly.

Now he has been transferred from the fast track court to the family court. He will soon take charge as the additional principal judge of the family court in Muzaffarnagar, said the latest judicial transfer orders issued by the concerned department.

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