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POCSO-accused tribal youth gets HC reprieve
The New Indian Express Chennai
|June 21, 2025
'Sentence not apt'
The MP High Court has commuted the death penalty of a 20-year-old tribal man convicted of rape in Khandwa district, reducing his sentence to 25 years of imprisonment. In 2023, a trial court had found him guilty of raping and attempting to murder a 4-year-old girl.
This story is from the June 21, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Chennai.
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