Madhya Pradesh High Court
MP High Court upholds the conviction but commutes to life imprisonment the death sentence of a man found guilty of raping and murdering a two-year-old girl in Shahdol district, holding the case did not meet the "rarest of rare" threshold for capital punishment.
Supreme Court of India
In a long-pending civil appeal, Supreme Court holds that a defendant relying on a document already admitted in evidence is not required to personally enter the witness box to prove it.