Updated On: 03 April, 2018 07:22 PM IST | MUMBAI | PTI
A bench of Justices R M Savant and Sarang Kotwal directed the Centre to file affidavits, explaining the amended provision of the Indian Penal Code which prescribes life sentence or the capital punishment for repeat offenders in rape cases.

Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court today gave the Union government time till April 24 to file a reply on petitions filed by three convicts in the Shakti Mills gang-rape case challenging the constitutional validity of the law under which they were sentenced to death for a repeat offense.