priyadarshini mattoo

The Delhi High Court has ordered convict Santosh Singh to surrender on Monday in the priyadarshini mattoo murder case. This comes after the victim's brother strongly opposed Singh's plea for premature release. The court will consider Singh's remission request only after his surrender.

The Delhi high court on Monday granted one-month parole to Santosh Kumar Singh who is serving life imprisonment in the priyadarshini mattoo rape and murder case.

The priyadarshini mattoo case, a symbol of injustice, saw a renewed fight for justice led by students after the 1996 murder. Despite a High Court conviction, the Supreme Court commuted the death sentence, devastating the family. Now, with the convict's potential release, those who fought for Priyadarshini fear her story will be forgotten, questioning the message it sends to society.

On the issue of conviction of Santosh Kumar Singh for rape and murder of priyadarshini mattoo, the apex court upheld the conclusions reached by the high court on Santosh’s guilt, based on a conclusive DNA test that proved rape and injuries suffered by the dead girl from a helmet that belonged to him.

Following is the chronology of the events in the sensational case of rape and murder of priyadarshini mattoo.

Naseem, who was the defence counsel in prominent cases like Jessica Lall murder and priyadarshini mattoo rape and murder, breathed his last at Mata Channan Devi hospital where he was undergoing treatment since January 24.

priyadarshini mattoo was a 23-year-old law student when she was raped and murdered a decade ago.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of lawyer Santosh Kumar Singh for the rape and murder of priyadarshini mattoo 15 years ago, but spared him the noose, saying the case did not fall in the "rarest of rare'' category.

CBI has moved the Delhi High Court seeking an early hearing of the appeal in the sensational priyadarshini mattoo murder case.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has decided not to file an appeal against the Supreme Court verdict on the priyadarshini mattoo murder case.

Delhi government recommended 22 convicts for release on completion of their sentences and rejected 86 cases. The rejected cases include the three high profile convicts - Manu Sharma, Santosh Singh and Sushil Sharma. Suspense had persisted over the fate of these prisoners lodged in Tihar jail.

Santosh Singh, who is on death row in the priyadarshini mattoo murder case, has moved the SC to appeal against the Delhi HC judgment.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the death sentence awarded to Santosh Kumar Singh for rape and murder of Delhi University student priyadarshini mattoo was correct.

Sharma, an IPS officer of the 1972 batch from the Rajasthan cadre, was appointed additional director in the agency.

Justice RS Sodhi, the 13th descendant of Sikh Guru Ram Das (founder of the Golden Temple of Amritsar), who had been a High Court judge is about to retire on the seventh of this month.

Manu Sharma, convicted for the murder of model Jessica Lal, and Santosh Singh, who is in jail for raping and murdering priyadarshini mattoo, will continue to remain behind bars as the Sentence Review Board (SRB)

Father of Delhi University law student priyadarshini mattoo, who was raped and then killed by Santosh Kumar Singh nearly 14 years ago, today expressed dissatisfaction over the commuting of the death penalty to life term.

While the immediate family members and well-wishers of priyadarshini mattoo expressed disappointment with the decision of Supreme Court to reduce convict Santosh Singh's death sentence, the verdict evoked a mixed reaction among the legal community.

The Supreme Court today upheld the conviction of Santosh Kumar Singh in the 14-year-old priyadarshini mattoo rape and murder case but reduced the death sentence to life imprisonment.

The Delhi High Court Tuesday granted three-week parole to Santosh Kumar Singh, who is serving life term for the 1996 rape and murder of law student priyadarshini mattoo, to write his LLM examination.

For victims of stalking, from priyadarshini mattoo and Radhika Tanwar to Meenakshi and Karuna, it is ever a tale of woe. Vulnerable to prying eyes when alive, they are denied justice after death, with the cases against their killers dragging on in the courts for years.

The thirteen Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers and seven Indian Police Service (IPS) officers have been transferred to different parts of Chhattisgarh as part of an administrative reshuffle. The orders for the transfers were released on Friday night. The raigarh collector, Ranu Sahu, against whom the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has taken action in connection with a money laundering case linked to an alleged coal levy scam, has been transferred as the joint secretary of the agriculture department along with the additional responsibility of managing director of Chhattisgarh State Mandi Board. The bilaspur superintendent of police, Parul Mathur, has been given the post of deputy inspector general of police (ACB) headquarters in Raipur. She will be replaced by Santosh Kumar Singh, who was posted as the sp of Korba. The dantewada assistant superintendent of police, Yogesh Kumar Patel, has been transferred as the sp of gpm while Rajnandgaon police chief, Prafull Thakur, has been shifted as the sp cm security.

Why didn't CBI list priyadarshini mattoo's brother, Hemant, as a prosecution witness? Was Kuppuswamy planted as a witness?

Sources in the govt said that the meeting of Sentence Review Board was scheduled to be chaired by home minister Satyendar Jain but had to be postponed. Around 200 convicts await the SRB discussion where their plea for early release. The last board meeting was held in Oct. According to the Delhi HC directive of August last year, the SRB should hold quarterly meetings.

Will it be death penalty or will it be life sentence? Whatever, the verdict has ignited hope for other cases waiting justice.

Another accused in Bhojpuri actress Akanksha Dubey suicide case Sanjay Singh was arrested in a joint action of crime branch and Sarnath police on Wednesday evening.