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NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·OCTOBER 19, 2013
India

INDIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPE, MURDER OF 9-YR-OLD

A court in Bihar, India, awarded death sentence to a man for raping and murdering a minor

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A court in Bihar, India, awarded death sentence to a man for raping and murdering a minor girl in Bihar's Jamui district two months ago.
District and Sessions Judge Jyoti Kumar Srivastava found Hemlal Sah guilty of raping and strangulating to death a nine-year-old girl and ordered that he be hanged till death.
According to the prosecution, Sah committed the heinous crime on finding the girl alone in a field at Shunba Roydih village.
The father of the girl had lodged an FIR on August 24, 2013 with the Chanderavanshi police station.
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  • (Sources: news.outlookindia.com, 19/10/2013)