Shimla, Sep 23 (PTI) The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Tuesday acquitted a convict and converted the death sentence of two others to life imprisonment “till their last breath” in a 2014 case here in which four-year-old Yug Gupta was abducted, tortured and killed, and his body dumped in a water tank where it was found two years later.

A bench of Justices Vivek Singh Thakur and Rakesh Kainthla said that “the material on record does not show that the accused cannot be reformed, hence we are unable to confirm the death penalty imposed by the trial court despite our indignation towards the crime”.

It said that to facilitate better evaluation of whether there is a possibility for the accused to be reformed, the court “deems it necessary to frame practical guidelines for the courts to adopt an

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