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The Madhya Pradesh High Court's Gwalior division bench has commuted the death sentence of a man convicted of raping and murdering a nine-year-old girl. The court upheld the conviction but reduced the punishment to life imprisonment for the remainder of the convict's natural life. The bench ruled that while the crime was heinous, brutality alone is not sufficient grounds for awarding capital punishment. Under Indian legal precedent, a death sentence can only be imposed if the case meets the 'rarest of rare' standard, which the court found was not satisfied in this instance.

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