Shimla, Sept. 25 -- Anguished residents of Shimla, along with family members of four-year-old Yug Gupta, who was brutally murdered in 2014, took to the streets on Thursday in protest against the Himachal Pradesh High Court's recent decision commuting the death sentence of two convicts to life imprisonment and acquitting a third accused.

Protestors, wearing black badges and blindfolds as a mark of dissent, marched from the Central Telegraph Office (CTO) building to Sher-e-Punjab, shouting slogans such as "We want justice" and "Punish Yug killers".

The demonstration reflected the community's outrage over what they described as a miscarriage of justice.

Yug, the only son of Vinod Gupta, was kidnapped on June 14, 2014, from his courtyard i...