Rajasthan court hands out death penalty to man for rape and murder of five-year-old in Alwar
FirstpostThe court convicted the accused, Rajkumar alias Dharmendra Yadav for the rape and murder of a minor girl, special public prosecutor Vinod Kumar Sharma said. Jaipur: A court in Rajasthan’s Alwar district on Wednesday awarded death penalty to a man for raping and killing a five-year-old girl in 2015 by smashing her face with a stone and mutilating her private parts, terming the crime “rarest of rare”. Special judge of POCSO court, Ajay Kumar Sharma, convicted the accused, Rajkumar alias Dharmendra Yadav, a resident of Rewali in Behror town, for raping and brutally killing the minor girl, special public prosecutor Vinod Kumar Sharma told PTI. The court convicted Rajkumar under Section 302 and 363 and also sentenced him to imprisonment till last breath under Section 376, he said.