The Supreme Court declined to restore a murder conviction in an Andhra Pradesh feud killing but faulted the High Court for altering it to culpable homicide on “surmises and conjectures.” New Delhi: The Supreme Court has declined to restore a murder conviction in a decades-old Andhra Pradesh feud killing, but in doing so faulted the […]
The Supreme Court reduced the sentence of an 80-year-old accused in a 1992 homicide case to the period already undergone, citing his advanced age and long lapse of time. The Court held that sending an elderly person back to prison at this stage would be harsh, stressing that “courts are not supposed to be insensitive.”
