INDIA: ASSAM TEEN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR GANG RAPE, MURDER

A teenager was sentenced to death by a court in central Assam’s Nagaon for the gang rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl five months ago. Zakir Hussain, the 19-year-old convict, was found to have taken the lead in raping the minor and setting her on fire at her residence in Batadrava on March 23. She died of burns while being transferred from the Nagaon civil hospital to the Guwahati Medical College and Hospital that night.