{"id":302278,"date":"2018-09-05T12:02:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T12:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302278"},"modified":"2018-09-05T12:02:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T12:02:38","slug":"himachal-pradesh-shimla-court-gives-death-penalty-to-3-in-yug-gupta-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/himachal-pradesh-shimla-court-gives-death-penalty-to-3-in-yug-gupta-murder-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Himachal Pradesh: Shimla court gives death penalty to 3 in Yug Gupta murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299573 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/law-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"632\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/law-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/law-2-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/law-2-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/law-2.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/>Shimla District and Sessions Judge Virender Singh on Wednesday pronounced death sentence to all three convicts\u2014Tajender, Chander Sharma and Vikrant&#8211;for the murder of four-year-old boy Yug Gupta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The family members of Yug, were in tears, as the quantum of sentence was pronounced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Court had declared them guilty on August 6 under Sections 302 (murder), 201 (disappearance of evidence\/false information), 347 (wrongful confinement to extort property) and 364 (kidnapping for ransom) of the IPC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Yug was kidnapped by his neighbour Chander, after enticing him with a chocolate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Yug was tortured, kept naked, starved and forced to drink liquor. He was later dumped alive in a water tank tied with a stone in 2014, seven days after the kidnapping, even before the demand for ransom of Rs 3.6 crore was made.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The child&#8217;s skeleton remains were recovered from the water tank of Shimla Municipal Corporation in Keleston area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shocked by the incident, thousands of people came out on the roads to protest against the heinous crime.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shimla District and Sessions Judge Virender Singh on Wednesday pronounced death sentence to all three convicts\u2014Tajender, Chander Sharma and Vikrant&#8211;for the murder of four-year-old boy Yug Gupta. The family members of Yug, were in tears, as the quantum of sentence was pronounced. The Court had declared them guilty on August 6 under Sections 302 (murder), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2898,2009,2014],"tags":[1726,1340,4765,4767,2662,4766],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302279,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302278\/revisions\/302279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}