Published on : 10 Dec 2025, 6:02 am 3 min read

The Supreme Court recently upheld the conviction of a man who had raped a minor in 1993, and ordered him to surrender within four weeks. [Kuldip Singh v State of Punjab]

The bench of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Vipul M Pancholi rejected a request that since the convict Kuldeep Singh is now married and about 50 years old, he may be released by reducing the sentence to the period already undergone.

“ As on the date of occurrence, the minimum sentence provided under section 376 of the IPC was seven years, therefore, it is not possible to reduce the sentence to less than minimum sentence provided under the statute ,” the Court ruled.

A Jalandhar court had convicted the accused in 1994. The decision was later uphel

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