In Brief
A 23-year-old man was convicted of gang rape and murder of two children aged 10 and 7 years. After abducting them, he and an accomplice raped the girl, administered poison, and threw both children into a canal to drown. The Supreme Court upheld convictions based on DNA evidence, witness testimony, and a voluntary confessional statement. However, the Court split 2:1 on sentencing: the majority confirmed the death sentence as a 'rarest of rare' case, while the minority commuted it to life imprisonment without remission, recognizing the appellant's youth, poor background, and confession as mitigating factors warranting an alternative to capital punishment.
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