INDIA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER ACCUSED

at a district court in India, Fast track court session judge K Natarajan sentenced a man identified as Mohamed, a resident of Birur, to death for raping and strangling an education department employee. The incident occurred on July 18, 2006, when Vijayanthi was returning to Chikmagalur. She accepted a ride in a car transporting newspapers that the convicted was driving. He then allegedly threw her body in Charmudi Ghat. During interrogation, Mohamed revealed everything.