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The Bombay High Court commuted the death sentences of three convicts to life imprisonment in the 2013 Shakti Mills gangrape case. The court upheld their conviction for the gangrape of a photojournalist in Mumbai.
The Karnataka High Court rejected the plea of B.A. Umesh, a serial killer sentenced to death for rape and murder, seeking commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment and challenging the President's refusal of clemency.
The Supreme Court restored charges under the Karnataka Control of Organised Crimes Act (KCOCA) against Mohan Nayak N, an accused in the 2017 murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh. The court ruled that a direct role in the commission of an organized crime is not necessary to invoke the act.
Sushil Kumar is accused in the murder of Sagar Rana at Chhatrasal Stadium. Delhi Police are considering invoking the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against the accused.
A 19-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly gang-raped and murdered in Hathras district, Uttar Pradesh in September 2020. The CBI filed a chargesheet in December 2020 against four accused persons. In March 2023, an SC/ST court acquitted three of the four accused; one was convicted of culpable homicide, and gang-rape charges were dropped against all accused.
Nine persons were arrested and a chargesheet was submitted by the NIA on September 25, 2014, in connection with the Jhiram Ghati massacre attack that killed senior Congress leaders. The case is being prosecuted in the NIA Special Court in Jagdalpur city, Bastar.
On December 16, 2012, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student was gang-raped, brutally assaulted, and murdered in a moving bus in south Delhi. Six people were accused of the crime; one was a juvenile. Four adult convicts were sentenced to death and executed in March 2020 at Tihar jail. The case led to significant reforms in sexual assault laws in India.
Six persons accused of indiscriminate firing to kill a man in broad daylight in 2001 were acquitted by the Supreme Court after more than a decade of appellate proceedings. One accused had served a life sentence awarded by the trial court and upheld by the Patna High Court in 2015. The Supreme Court concluded that no proper investigation had taken place and quashed the case.