DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPE, MURDER

a local court has convicted and sentenced a 25-year-old youth to death for raping a minor girl and murdering her two years ago, on the basis of circumstantial evidence. According to the prosecution, Rout had lured the girl to a nearby jungle at Kundajhari village under Thakurgarh police station limits and raped her. He then strangled her to death. In his judgement, the judge observed that life imprisonment would be inadequate for such a crime.