Priyadarshini Mattoo case: Delhi High Court sets aside decision to reject convict's plea for premature release

Priyadarshini Mattoo was raped and murdered in January 1996; Santosh Kumar Singh, a law student of Delhi University, was acquitted by the trial court in the case on December 3, 1999, but the Delhi High Court had on October 27, 2006, reversed the decision, holding him guilty of rape and murder and awarded him death penalty; in October 2010, the Supreme Court had upheld Singh’s conviction but commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment

Priyadarshini Mattoo case: Delhi High Court sets aside decision to reject convict's plea for premature release
Priyadarshini Mattoo was raped and murdered in January 1996; Santosh Kumar Singh, a law student of Delhi University, was acquitted by the trial court in the case on December 3, 1999, but the Delhi High Court had on October 27, 2006, reversed the decision, holding him guilty of rape and murder and awarded him death penalty; in October 2010, the Supreme Court had upheld Singh’s conviction but commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment