NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has said that heinous offences like dacoity, money-laundering and other offences like moral turpitude, particularly when they are directed against women, should be dealt with exemplary punishment and no leniency should be shown towards the accused.

Any liberal attitude or sympathetic approach on a plea that much time has lapsed since the commission of an offence should not be entertained as it would pose a grave threat to the social fabric and law and order, a bench headed by Justice Arijit Pasayat said while recalling an earlier ruling of the apex court.

The bench's observations came while declining to interfere with the 10-year sentence handed out to Venugopal and others charged with committing dacoity on a highway in Karnataka's Kolar district. The accused waylaid the victims, including a woman, and snatched her ornaments after tying them up and threatening them with knives and other lethal weapons.

The accused were arrested later and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by the session's court and their punishment was affirmed by the Karnataka High Court.

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