Chandigarh, Aug. 13 -- The Punjab and Haryana High Court has commuted the death sentence to a rape and murder convict in a 2022 case in Kaithal, Haryana, to a 50-year jail term. "It is one of those rare cases where the line that separates the categories of the 'Rarest of Rare' from 'Rare' is on the razor's edge. The biggest challenge before this court is that when the death penalty is not imposed and when executive policies permit early release, how do we save the girls from the perverts who, after committing rape, kill them to destroy the evidence?," the bench of justice Anoop Chitkara and justice RC Dimri observed. The seven-year-old girl was allegedly lured and abducted by the convict, Pawan alias Moni (then 21), from near her house, and...