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Mattoo murder accused convicted

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Santosh Kumar Singh will get either death sentence or life imprisonment

NEW DELHI: Seven years after being acquitted by the trial court, a Division Bench of the Delhi High Court on Tuesday convicted Santosh Kumar Singh, son of a former senior Delhi police officer, in the Priyadarshini Mattoo murder case.

The trial court acquitted Singh in 1999.

The Central Bureau of Investigation went on an appeal against the acquittal in the High Court.

The High Court reserved the judgment on September 29.

Killed at her residence

Priyadarshini Mattoo, a law student of the Campus Law Centre in Delhi University, was raped and killed on January 23, 1996 at her residence in Vasant Kunj.

The court directed that Singh be kept under judicial custody till October 30 and he was taken to the Tihar Central Jail

The Bench observed that the court had two options — death or life sentence — with regard to the punishment to be awarded to the accused.

Quantum of sentence

The Bench, comprising Justice R.S. Sodhi and Justice P.K. Bhasin, fixed October 30 as the date for hearing arguments by counsel for the accused and the prosecution on the quantum of sentence.

The Bench admitted all the 13 circumstances, which the prosecution had brought to its notice.

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