A bench of justices BR Gavai, Vikram Nath and Sanjay Karol set aside the death sentence of the accused, convicted in a December 2017 rape and murder case in Madhya Pradesh.
The two accused have been identified as Pawan and Vinod, the latter of whom was one of three accused in the Chhawla rape case, who was acquitted by the Supreme Court.
A POCSO court in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad on Saturday convicted a man of raping and killing a six-year-old girl and awarded the convict a death sentence.
Belagavi (Karnataka) [India], October 13 (ANI): A 19-year-old woman on Wednesday died in suspicious circumstances in a private hospital in Bailhongal town of Karnataka's Belagavi.
Dumka (Jharkhand) [India], September 4 (ANI): After a minor tribal girl was found hanging from a tree in Jharkhand's Dumka district, the police on Sunday registered a rape and murder case under POCSO Act and SC/ST Act.
Nadia (West Bengal) [India], July 9 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed a chargesheet in the Court of Special Judge (POCSO court), Ranaghat against nine accused in a case related to the alleged gang-rape and murder of a minor girl in Hanskhali in Nadia district.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 2 (ANI): Dindoshi sessions court here on Thursday gave the death sentence to a man convicted in connection with the rape of a 30-year-old woman in Sakinaka in September 2021.
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): The Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of a man accused of raping and murdering a minor into life imprisonment, observing the possibility and the probability of the reformation and rehabilitation of the man.
Hazaribagh (Jharkhand) [India], May 8 (ANI): The Hazaribagh Police have arrested two persons on the charges of raping and murdering a 20-year old girl in Hazaribagh.