Supreme Court upheld a man’s conviction for sexually assaulting a minor but reduced his sentence from natural life to standard life imprisonment. Court ruled enhanced punishment under amended POCSO can’t apply retrospectively.
Initially, the trial court sentenced the convict to death on May 17, 2018. However, the Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow bench later commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment without the possibility of remission. New Delhi, Jan 2: The Supreme Court on Thursday (2nd Dec) acknowledged a report confirming that a convict in a 2013 rape […]
