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NEW DELHI: Just three years after the Nirbhaya case led to nationwide outrage, the rape and murder of a 33-year-old again shook the city in 2015. It emerged that wooden pieces were shoved inside the woman’s private parts, leading to her death. A three-year trial has now culminated in a rare Delhi court judgment, with the accused being convicted on not one, but two charges: Section 302 (murder) and 376A (rape causing a woman’s death), attracting death penalty as maximum punishment.The court is yet to pronounce the quantum of punishment. On January 10, her body was found lying in the bushes behind Ghitorni Metro station near Chhattarpur . The accused’s claim of alleged tampering of medical specimen was successfully contested by the forensic expert’s opinion..