A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district Wednesday sentenced a man to death for the rape and murder of a minor girl, police said.<\/p>\n
Additional Sessions Judge Rajendra Singh handed down the death sentence to Guddu alias Jitendra Kumar, a native of Gajnera village in Bareilly, some 250 km from here.<\/p>\n
Kumar had raped the girl in 2007 in fields in Bhuta town of Bareilly and later killed her by slitting her throat.<\/p>\n
The girl’s father Pappu Saxena alias Krishna Kant had lodged an FIR against Kumar Jan 30, 2007, after which Kumar was arrested, a police official said.<\/p>\n
‘The judge heard around 10 witnesses before pronouncing the death penalty,’ police inspector Pankaj Awasthi told reporters in Bareilly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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