On June 17, 2025, the Calcutta High Court commuted the death penalty of Suresh Paswan, convicted in the 2013 kidnapping, rape, and murder of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl sleeping under a flyover near Khidderpore, Kolkata. While justices Debangsu Basak and Shabbar Rashidi upheld his conviction, they concluded the case did not meet the “rarest of rare” threshold necessary for capital punishment and noted mitigating factors such as the absence of premeditation. Instead, they reduced his sentence to life imprisonment with a 50-year no-remission period, ensuring he cannot seek early release.

sources