‘No credible evidence’: Supreme Court acquits man on death row for girl’s rape-murder; police made accused a ‘scapegoat’ | India News
NEW DELHI: Observing that courts cannot yield to public sentiment and external pressures and punish an accused merely on moral convictions or conjectures, the Supreme Court set aside on Wednesday the conviction of a man on death row for the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in Chennai in 2017. It said that the…