Well said. It is only fiction but it is unpalatable fiction. If they had made the leap a few years it may have been digestable, but 16 years with the 'animal in human avatar'(don't know who coined it but it is an apt name for Meera)enjoying a happy life - raising the children she helped to murder and that too tried to murder their mother; living with Jai Walia, sleeping with him all in all enjoying the prime of her life.
Meera going to jail for 14 years as that is the amount of capital punishment is nothing compared to the loss that Bani and her children suffered. I won't include Jai Walia because he has had his head buried in the sand most of his adult life where his personal life is concerned - so am not sure if he has suffered any losses (just my POV).
There is no punishment - especially the cartoonish punishment the destructives mete out - ala rotten tamatar - that Meera 🤢 could suffer that would make up for all the time Bani and her children lost with each other.