NEW DELHI: At a time when the execution of the Nirbhaya case convicts is getting repeatedly postponed, the Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of a man found guilty of killing three children in cold blood nine years ago.
A bench of Justices U U Lalit, Indira Banerjee and M R Shah concurred with the findings of the trial court and the Chhattisgarh high court to hold Manoj Suryavanshi guilty of killing two boys aged eight and six, and a four-year-old girl but commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment, which should last a minimum of 25 years, taking into account the murderer’s mental condition at the time of crime.
Suryavanshi had said he kidnapped and murdered the children when they were returning home from school to take revenge on their father, whose young
