INDIA: EIGHT YEAR DELAY IN SC HEARING ALLOWS MAN TO ESCAPE GALLOWS
in India, the Delhi High Court commuted the death sentence of Ajit Seth for murdering Sunny Arora, 7, and Shikha Arora, 3, to life imprisonment because the Supreme Court took eight years to decide the case.
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in India, the Delhi High Court commuted the death sentence of Ajit Seth for murdering Sunny Arora, 7, and Shikha Arora, 3, to life imprisonment because the Supreme Court took eight years to decide the case. Seth allegedly burned the children to death to stop them from reporting to their father his illicit relation with their mother.
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- (Sources: Times of India, 08/09/2010)
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