Nagpur, Oct. 29 -- The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has commuted the death sentence of a Gadchiroli man convicted of raping a woman and murdering her three-year-old son in 2017.
A division bench of Justices Urmila Joshi-Phalke and Raj Wakode on Wednesday converted the death sentence awarded to Sanju Vishwanath Sarkar by the Aheri Additional Sessions Court on December 24, 2025, into life imprisonment.
The case pertains to an incident on the night of June 19, 2017, at Kanchanpur village in Mulchera taluka of Gadchiroli district.
The woman was at home with her son while her husband was away in Andhra Pradesh for work.
According to the prosecution, Sarkar, a neighbour, entered the house and sexually assaulted the woman. When the ch...