Priyadarshini mattoo biography definition

Murdered law student in New Delhi

Priyadarshini Mattoo (23 July – 23 January ) was a year-old law student who was found raped and murdered at her house in New Delhi on 23 January On 17 October , the Delhi High Court found Santosh Kumar Singh guilty on both counts of rape and murder, and on 30 October of the same year sentenced him to death.

Priyadarshini mattoo biography definition

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On 6 October , the Supreme Court of India commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment. Santosh Kumar Singh, the son of an Inspector-General of Police, had earlier been acquitted by a trial court in , and the High Court decision was widely perceived in India as a landmark reversal.

This decision was overturned as the facts were not presented correctly in the lower court.

Significance of the case

The acquittal of Santosh Singh in led to the investigating agency CBI, challenge the judgment in the Delhi high court on 29 February

Justices RS Sodhi and PK Bhasin of Delhi High Court shifted from a traditional lax p