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Yug murder case: Himachal Pradesh HC commutes death sentences of two convicts

The child was abducted, tortured, and killed, and his skeletal remains were found two years later in a Shimla Municipal Corporation water tank in August 2016

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Yug was abducted from his courtyard in Shimla’s Ram Bazar on June 14, 2014, by neighbour, who lured him with chocolate. Representational pic

Yug was abducted from his courtyard in Shimla’s Ram Bazar on June 14, 2014, by neighbour, who lured him with chocolate. Representational pic

The Himachal Pradesh High Court (HC) on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of two convicts to life imprisonment “till their last breath” and acquitted a third in the 2014 murder case of four-year-old Yug Gupta, news agency PTI reported.

The child was abducted, tortured, and killed, and his skeletal remains were found two years later in a Shimla Municipal Corporation water tank in August 2016.

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