“No Useful Purpose Served in Sending Back to Custody”: Delhi HC Reduces Rape Sentence to Time Served Citing 18-Year Ordeal

The Delhi High Court has upheld the conviction of an individual accused of kidnapping and rape in a 2008 case but reduced his sentence to the period of imprisonment already undergone. Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma observed that “no useful purpose would be served by sending the appellant back to custody” after a lapse of nearly

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