continued medical management. The neurological evaluation notes that he has right sided hemiparesis due to his stroke in 2021 and left frontoparietal gliosis per CT brain done in 2023. He has persistent speech deficit due to the stroke, which will continue and require continuous medical management throughout his life. 2030. We have scrutinized the aforesaid reports submitted to this court. We find that the present case would not fall in the category of “rarest of rare cases” wherein it can be held that imposition of death penalty is the only alternative. We are of the considered opinion that the present case would fall in the category of middle path as held by this court in various judgments of this court12. 31. In the instant case, it is to be noted that appellant hails from a poor nomadic community in Maharashtra. He had an alcoholic father and suffered parental neglect and poverty. He dropped out of school when he was 10 years old and was forced to start working to support his