<span style="color: #222222;">The Supreme Court has today dismissed a plea filed by a death row convict seeking review of its verdict affirming capital punishment imposed on him for gang-raping a minor girl and later killing her along with her brother in Coimbatore in 2010. In a majority judgment of 2:1, a bench headed by Justice R F Nariman, said there are no grounds to review their verdict upholding the death penalty of convict Manoharan.<br />''<br />''While Justices Nariman and Suryakant dismissed the review plea, Justice Sanjiv Khanna, who was also part of the three-judge bench, said he has a different view on the point of the sentence only.</span>
News On AIR | November 7, 2019 12:19 PM
Coimbatore child rape-murder case: SC dismisses plea of death row convict