INDIA DEATH FOR MURDER OF AIDS COUNSELLOR

a local court in Jabalpur, India, sentenced a person to death for murdering an AIDS counsellor "over a petty issue". Kaushal Kishore Jaiswal was awarded capital punishment for burning to death AIDS counsellor Sanjay Shrivastava, for rejecting his claim that he was suffering from AIDS and thus "not providing enough medical attention". The incident happened on March 6, 2007, when the accused set the counsellor on fire at a medical college here. Six days later, Shrivastava succumbed to his burn injuries. Judge Vijay Kumar Pandey observed that the fatal attack on a counsellor, who was working towards public welfare, over such a petty issue was a rarest of rare cases and pronounced the capital punishment, public prosecutor Pramod Pandey said.