Delhi Court Rejects Death Penalty for 22-Year-Old Man Convicted of Raping 4-Year-Old Girl; Here’s Why

A Delhi court declined the death penalty for 22-year-old Sunny Kumar, convicted of raping a four-year-old girl, ruling the case wasn’t ‘rarest of rare’. Citing his youth and clean record as mitigating factors, the court instead sentenced him to life imprisonment without leniency and awarded INR 13.5 lakh compensation to the victim.