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Himachal Pradesh HC commutes death sentences of two convicts, acquits third in Yug murder case
Updated On: 23 September, 2025 07:40 PM IST | Shimla | mid-day online correspondent
The child was abducted, tortured, and killed, and his skeletal remains were found two years later in a Shimla Municipal Corporation water tank in August 2016

Yug was abducted from his courtyard in Shimla’s Ram Bazar on June 14, 2014, by neighbour, who lured him with chocolate. Representational pic
The Himachal Pradesh High Court (HC) on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of two convicts to life imprisonment “till their last breath” and acquitted a third in the 2014 murder case of four-year-old Yug Gupta, news agency PTI reported.
The child was abducted, tortured, and killed, and his skeletal remains were found two years later in a Shimla Municipal Corporation water tank in August 2016.
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