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Acid Attack Case: Bombay High Court Confirms Man's Conviction, But Commutes Death Penalty - (13 Jun 2019)

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Bombay High Court has upheld the conviction of a 25-year-old man in the 2013 Preeti Rathi acid attack case. However it has commuted his death penalty to life imprisonment. The Court partly allowed the appeal filed by convict Ankur Panwar, challenging the death penalty awarded to him by a Special Court in 2015.

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