SC stays execution of 55 year old convicted for rape and murder of 4 year old [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the execution of death row convict, Vasanta Sampat Dupare, who had been convicted of raping and stoning to death a four-year-old girl in Maharashtra in 2008.The three Judge Bench, comprising Justice Dipak Misra, Justice R.F. Nariman and Justice U.U. Lalit agreed to hear Dupare’s review petition, on his counsel’s submission that the lower Court had...