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patna, feb 7 (ians) a bihar court thursday awarded the death penalty to a 45-year-old man for raping and killing a minor girl four years ago, a lawyer said.
describing the crime as "rarest of rare", vaishali additional district and sessions judge padma kumari choudhary awarded the capital punishment to bilat pandit after he was found guilty. |
pandit was charged under the provisions of sections 367 and 302 of the indian penal code (ipc), police said.
a police official said that pandit lured the girl, daughter of a washerman, to accompany him to a wedding party in hajipur, district headquarters town of vaishali, some 30 km from here, in may 2008. but he raped and killed the child after forcibly taking her to a secluded place.
pandit dumped the body in a field near veer kuer singh colony in hajipur, where he worked as a domestic help, police said.
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