In a first ever instance, the Supreme Court on Tuesday acquitted six people whom it had awarded death sentence 10 years ago in a 2003 case involving dacoity, gang rape of a woman and murder of five of a family in Nashik.
Apart from acquitting the accused, who were from a nomadic tribe and falsely implicated in the case by the police, a bench of Justices A K Sikri, S Abdul Nazeer and M R Shah ordered the Maharashtra government to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to each person within four weeks and identify officials who let the real culprits get away.
 

In a first ever instance, the Supreme Court on Tuesday acquitted six people whom it had awarded death sentence 10 years ago in a 2003 case involving dacoity, gang rape of a woman and murder of five of a family in Nashik.
Apart from acquitting the accused, who were from a nomadic tribe and falsely implicated in the case by the police, a bench of Justices A K Sikri, S Abdul Nazeer and M R Shah ordered the Maharashtra government to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to each person within four weeks and identify officials who let the real culprits get away.