Supreme Court refuses to give relief to two convicts
BY Agencies15 Feb 2018 11:41 PM IST
Agencies15 Feb 2018 11:41 PM IST
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to vacate its stay on the suspension of a 20-year sentence awarded to two convicts in a case of gangrape at a Haryana private university and directed the high court to decide their appeals in five months.
The top court observed that peculiarity of this gangrape case was that the accused had remained in jail throughout the trial, and once the trial court convicted them, they were released by the Punjab and Haryana High Court. A bench of Justices S A Bobde and L Nageswara Rao said its interim order of stay on the suspension of the sentence would continue till the convicts' appeals are decided.
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