Three Rape Convicts on Death Row Acquitted by SC

New Delhi: Three convicts punished with the death penalty by a Delhi court were acquitted by the Supreme Court on Monday. The three had been earlier held guilty of raping a murdering a 19-year-old woman in 2012. The victim had been raped and killed in a village in Haryana after being kidnapped from Delhi’s Chhawala area.

In February 2014, a Delhi court found these three men guilty of the crime and awarded death sentence to them. The trio identified as Ravi Kumar, Rahul and Vinod were convicted under various charges dealing with kidnapping, rape and murder. Their death penalty was confirmed by the Delhi High Court in August 2014.

According to the chargesheet, the trio had first kidnapped the woman, raped her, killed her, and dumped her body in a field in Rodhai village in Haryana’s Rewari district.