Punjab and Haryana HC commutes death sentence to life imprisonment for man convicted of raping and murdering a minor girl.

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The Punjab and Haryana High Court has commuted a man’s death sentence for the rape and murder of a five-and-a-half-year-old girl to rigorous imprisonment for life, and acquitted his mother, observing ...

The court said any sentence to be proportionate must be stable and balanced like a table, and for any table to be stable, all its legs must be comparable ...

This behaviour stemmed from “orthodox conditioning” and a “deeply embedded” patriarchal mindset, the court said, calling it ...

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The Punjab and Haryana High Court has commuted a man's death sentence for the rape to rigorous imprisonment for life, and ...

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