The verdict of Matoo murder case came on 06.10.2010.The bench observed that this case cannot be considered as rarer than the rarest case and the culprit Mr Santosh Kumar ia awarded life sentence and not hanging. That is to call justice of convenience.Before this the judge in the lower court had observed that though the judge is quite sure that Santosh Singh is the only murderer but he says he has to acquit him for want of evidence .What more evidences he wanted other than that he himself was convinced.FinallySantosh Singh was acqitted .It was due to the pressure from media that the case took a different turn