Overview

• Justices Vivek Singh Thakur and Rakesh Kainthla ordered Chander Sharma and Vikrant Bakshi to serve life imprisonment for their natural life.
• Tejinder Pal Singh was acquitted of all charges, and the court also set aside the duo’s convictions under IPC Sections 347 and 364A.
• The judges said the record did not show the convicts could not be reformed and noted the evidence did not establish specific acts of brutality beyond circumstantial findings.
• The child was abducted in June 2014 and his remains were recovered from a Shimla municipal water tank in August 2016; a sessions court had imposed death sentences in 2018.
• Yug Gupta’s family and the state said they will move the Supreme Court, and the bench signalled plans to frame practical guidelines for assessing reformation potential.