INDIA. KERALA HIGH COURT COMMUTES SENTENCE OF DEATH INTO LIFE

the Kerala High Court, India, commuted into life the death sentence of Vadasseril Raju handed down by the Thalassery Sessions Court for rape and murder. The court partly allowed the convict’s appeal ruling that the case did not fall into the ‘rarest of rare’ category as specified for a sentence of death.
According to the prosecution, Raju abducted Sandhya, 16, as she was returning home from college on October 11, 2001. He then raped and strangled her to death.