The Supreme Court has said that a rape convict can be awarded lesser punishment if courts find adequate and special reasons for doing so.
Though a bench of justices M Y Eqbal and Pinaki Chandra Ghose upheld the conviction of Madhya Pradesh resident Ravindra in a 20-year-old rape case, it allowed him to walk free after imposing a jail term already undergone by him.
Referring to a case law, the court considered as adequate and special reasons the fact that the trial was protracted and both convict and the victim have married separately.
http://indianexpress.com/article/ind...supreme-court/
always rundi :peep:
Though a bench of justices M Y Eqbal and Pinaki Chandra Ghose upheld the conviction of Madhya Pradesh resident Ravindra in a 20-year-old rape case, it allowed him to walk free after imposing a jail term already undergone by him.
Referring to a case law, the court considered as adequate and special reasons the fact that the trial was protracted and both convict and the victim have married separately.
http://indianexpress.com/article/ind...supreme-court/
always rundi :peep: