Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday admitted an appeal filed by Chandrabhan Sanap, convicted in the rape and murder case of a Hyderabad techie, challenging the death penalty awarded to him by a special court last year.

A special court had on October 30 last year convicted Sanap for raping and murdering a 23-year-old TCS techie, after picking her up from suburban Lokmanya Tilak Terminus under the false promise of dropping her at her hostel in Andheri.