20 May 2010 :
in a landmark judgment, the Gauhati High Court in India commuted the death sentence of rickshaw puller Sujit Biswas, 24, to life imprisonment.A Division Bench comprising Justices Amitava Roy and P.K. Mushahary found that the death penalty was not an appropriate punishment for the rape and murder of a three-year-old in the city's Nepali Mandir locality in October, 2007, as the appellant "is young and lives in poverty."
(Sources: The Hindu, 20/05/2010)
