Courts warned against showing leniency towards rape convicts by SC; Katju's 2011 Judgment no longer a precedent

A three Judge Bench of the Supreme Court has ruled that compromise between rape survivor and rape convict cannot be a ground to reduce sentence of imprisonment.Further, even an offer of marriage by the accused to rape survivor should not persuade courts to reduce sentence of rape convicts, the Supreme Court noted. The courts can reduce sentence in rape cases under exceptional...