Four years after Aditya Ranka, the 13-year-old son of diamond merchant Jeetendra Ranka, was kidnapped and brutally murdered, a sessions court on Thursday awarded life imprisonment to the accused Vijesh Sanghavi for the crime. This comes three days after the court acquitted the victim's cousin Himanshu Ranka due to a lack of evidence. On Wednesday, Special Public Prosecutor Kalpana Chavan had sought the death sentence, stating that the crime qualified as the rarest of rare cases.

Aditya Ranka