a spurned lover and engineering student

a spurned lover and engineering student, who beheaded a girl in St. Xavier's College here last year, got relief from the Jharkhand High Court, India, which converted his death sentence into a life term, a lawyer said. "The death sentence was converted into life term. The high court refused to accept that it was a rarest of rare case," said Rajesh Kumar, lawyer of convict Bijendra Kumar. The convict, a resident of Jamshedpur, over 100 km from here, was awarded death sentence May 2 this year by a Ranchi court for killing Khushboo, who had spurned his advances. Bijendra beheaded Khushboo in the college April 27, 2011.