Describe kinds of offences under which capital punishment may be awarded by Court under Indian Penal Code.

A death sentence is the harshest of punishments provided in the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which involves the judicial killing or taking the life of the accused as a form of punishment. The Supreme Court has ruled that death sentence ought to be imposed only in the "rarest of rare cases". The IPC provides for capital punishment for the following offences: (a) Murder (b) Dacoity with Murder. (c) Waging War against the Government of India. (d) Abetting mutiny actually committed. (e) Giving or fabricating false evidence upon which an innocent person suffers death (f) Abetment of a suicide by a minor or insane person; (g) Attempted murder by a life convict. The capital punishment is awarded only in two categories of offences, namely treason and murder. In either of the cases, when the court decides that death penalty is the appropriate sentence to be imposed in the light of the gravity of matter and consequences of the offence committed and the absence of mitigating factors, then the court under the provisions of section 354(3) of Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) has to give special reasons as to why the court came to this conclusion.