A proud victory for Project 39A at National Law University, Delhi, as the Supreme Court of India set free a death row convict, who was only 12 at the time of the offence, while acknowledging that he could have been imprisoned only for a max of 3 yrs but has now served 28 yrs (25 of those years on death row).
Project 39A, National Law University, Delhi briefed Justice Basant to argue this matter in the Supreme Court.
Judgment was authored by Justice Aniruddha Bose for a bench that also comprised Justices KM Joseph and Hrishikesh Roy.
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