Upholding the conviction of a Punjab man for raping a minor in 1993, the Supreme Court has ordered him to surrender within four weeks.

“Having heard learned counsel for the parties, we are of the concerned view that the Appeal has no substance,” a Bench of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Vipul M Pancholi said, rejecting convict Kuldeep Singh’s appeal.

The convict had requested the top court to release him by reducing the sentence to the period already undergone as he was now married and about 50 years old. However, the Bench didn’t accept his request. “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,” it said in

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