In a recent development, a Delhi court handed down the death penalty to three individuals for the gangrape and murder of a woman, along with her two young children, a 7-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl. The convicts initially used a screwdriver to kill the woman and then strangled her.
The Bombay High Court has acquitted a man who was awarded a death penalty in connection with the alleged gang-rape of two women and the killing of one of them in 2012,