right to appeal to a High Court or the Supreme Court. Human rights groups have criticised India's use of death penalty and have repeatedly asked India to end the "distressing" use of executions and move towards abolishing the death penalty.

Last year, India executed Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru just three months after it hanged the lone surviving 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab in a Pune jail. In September last year, four men were sentenced to death for raping and murdering a young woman in New Delhi in December 2012, a tragedy that sparked wide-spread protests and anger across the country and united its citizens in seeking justice for the student, who died in a Singapore hospital.

A related draft amendment tabled in the third committee was rejected by a votein the Indiana Women's Prison.
On September 20, 1968, appellant filed a petition to transfer the case to the Allen County Juvenile Court on the ground that appellant was in fact only sixteen years old. The trial court denied the petition and appellant's request for a hearing on appellant's age on September 25, 1968.
On December 9, 1968, the trial court approved the filing of a belated motion for new trial which included affidavits from appellant that she was only sixteen years old and a birth certificate. The trial court overruled the belated motion for new trial.
Appellant's several assignments of error all rest on one argument: When it was made known to the judge that this appellant was under eighteen years of age, he was required by statute, Acts 1945,