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MP high court has confirmed death sentences in five cases, and commuted seven to life imprisonment or ‘jailed till death’. From crime to confirmation of death sentence, it took only seven months. JABALPUR/BHOPAL: Satna district court has issued the “death warrant” — final order for execution — against a schoolteacher convicted of raping a four-year-old girl. Officials say he will be hanged unless Supreme Court orders a stay. The conviction was unique in that the survivor’s statement was taken via videoconferencing and proved vital in proving him guilty.A division bench of MP high court confirmed the death sentence on January 25, 2019, holding his crime to be “rarest of rare”..