New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a plea filed by a man incarcerated for 12 years before his acquittal by the apex court in a rape and murder case, seeking compensation for the "wrongful arrest, prosecution and conviction".

"Issue notice, returnable on November 24. We would request the attorney general or the solicitor general to assist this court in this matter," a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta said on Monday.

The bench was hearing three separate petitions raising the similar issue.

In one of the matters, the petitioner was on death row for six years after being awarded capital punishment by a trial court in Thane, Maharashtra, in March 2019.

The Bombay High Court in November 2021 upheld the death sentence awarded to him.

However, in May this yea

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