Overview

• On September 23, the Himachal Pradesh High Court commuted the death sentences of Chander Sharma and Vikrant Bakshi to life imprisonment and acquitted Tejinder Pal Singh.
• The bench said the record did not show the convicts could not be reformed, departing from a 2018 sessions court ruling that had imposed death sentences as a 'rarest of rare' case.
• On Thursday, Yug Gupta’s parents led a blindfold protest through Shimla’s Lower Bazaar as hundreds joined with placards and black bands.
• Yug, 4, was abducted in June 2014, and his skeletal remains were recovered from a Shimla Municipal Corporation water tank in 2016 after a CID investigation.
• Yug’s father, Vinod Gupta, announced the family will seek to appeal the High Court decision in the Supreme Court.