West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday hailed a death sentence awarded to man accused of minor's rape-murder and said there is zero tolerance towards crimes. Earlier in the day, a POSCO court in the state awarded a death sentence to a man accused of the rape and murder of a minor girl in Joynagar. "The accused in the …
Violence erupted at Joynagar in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district on Saturday after a nine-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped, raped and murdered on her way back home after attending a tuition class on Friday. Her body was found late on Friday and the villagers alleged that police initially refused to lodge a missing person report. But when police went …