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Bombay HC commutes death penalty of Kolhapur sisters who killed 14 kids

The death sentence awarded to sisters Renuka Shinde and Seema Gavit has been commuted to life imprisonment by the Bombay High Court on Tuesday. The sisters were convicted by a Kolhapur court for kidnapping 14 children and killing five of them between 1990 and 1996.

The two women, who have been in custody since October 1996, had petitioned the High Court in 2014 to commute the death sentence to life term, citing unreasonable delay by the state in dealing with their mercy petitions. The sisters had said that such delay violated their fundamental right to life.