Indore (Madhya Pradesh): Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court partly allowed the appeals of three convicts in the 2014 Khargone murder case, acquitting them of gang-rape charges but upholding their conviction for murder and house trespass.

A division bench of Justice Vivek Rusia and Justice Binod Kumar Dwivedi delivered the verdict on criminal appeal filed by Ankit Rathore, Akshay Joshi and Vishal Choudhary, challenging their conviction by a Khargone trial court.

The case concerns the brutal killing of a 22-year-old final-year BPharm student of GRY College, Borawan, who was set ablaze at her home in Ojhara village on May 10, 2014. The three accused — also BPharm students of the same college — were arrested the same day from the scene of the crime.

In 2015, the trial court had sent

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