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 30 Oct, 2006 9:14 pm Post subject: Santosh gets death for Mattoo murder |
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New Delhi: Almost 11 years after the rape and murder of 23-year-old Priyadarshini Mattoo, convict Santosh Kumar Singh was on Monday sentenced to death by the Delhi High Court.
Pronouncing the judgement in a jam-packed court room, Justice R S Sodhi and P K Bhasin ordered that "he (Singh) shall be hanged till death".
The court said the mitigating circumstances under which leniency was begged for Santosh was not enough and the brutal rape and murder does fall in the bracket of "rarest of rare" cases.
Dressed in grey trousers and white shirt, Singh, a practising lawyer who is married and has a child, was sitting just five-feet away from the jam-packed court when the verdict was pronounced. The court had convicted Santosh of the crime earlier this month.
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