Supreme Court Acquits Two in POCSO Murder Case, Overturns Death Penalty Citing Broken Chain of Evidence and Tainted Investigation

The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday acquitted two men, Akhtar Ali and Prem Pal Verma, in a 2014 case involving the kidnapping, sexual assault, and murder of a minor girl in Uttarakhand. A three-judge bench of Justice Vikram Nath, Justice Sanjay Karol, and Justice Sandeep Mehta, in a detailed judgment authored by Justice Mehta,

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