After 22 death sentences in 4 months, 100 murder cases moved from UP judge’s court
Around 100 murder cases are being transferred from fast-track court judge Ravi Kumar Diwakar to District and Sessions Judge Virendra Kumar Singh in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar. Diwakar has handed down 22 death sentences in the past four months. Diwakar, born in July 1980, has a BCom and LLM degree and has served in several Uttar Pradesh districts.
He has been the additional district and sessions judge in Muzaffarnagar since November 2025. Diwakar gained attention in 2022 for ordering a survey of the Gyanvapi complex in Varanasi. He is known for delivering strict judgments. In March 2024, Diwakar referred to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as an example of Plato’s "philosopher king" in a related order to the 2010 Bareilly riots.
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