The Gujarat High Court has acquitted a woman awarded death penalty for the murder of her daughter, who objected to her alleged extramarital relationship. The court upheld the conviction of the woman's paramour but commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. Details of the case and the events leading to the murder are outlined in the article.
The Gujarat High Court recently observed that it cannot issue a writ of habeas corpus over stolen livestock and suggested the lawyer who had filed the petition to "go through the law regarding habeas.