Indian Supreme Court orders release of man wrongfully convicted as adult after 25 years in prison.

The Supreme Court of India ordered the release of Om Prakash, who spent 25 years in prison for murders committed when he was 14. Despite repeatedly claiming he was a minor, his pleas were ignored until the Supreme Court recognized the injustice and found he was wrongly convicted as an adult. The court ordered his immediate release, acknowledging the irreversible loss of his youth in prison.

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