Teen gets death for 11-year-old's rape, murder

  • | Saturday | 8th September, 2018

GUWAHATI: A local court on Friday awarded death sentence to the prime accused in the gang-rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Assam's Nagaon district . The district and sessions court convicted Zakir Hussain (19), the main accused, on Monday. "Hussain was charged with gang-rape, house trespassing, causing disappearance of evidence and murder as well as under the Pocso Act, advocate Manash Jyoti Neog said. Earlier, a juvenile court had sent two other minors accused in the case to a correctional home for three years.On March 23, Hussain, along with two minor boys, had gang-raped the minor girl and set her on fire. In her dying statement, she had identified the culprits.

GUWAHATI: A local court on Friday awarded death sentence to the prime accused in the gang-rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Assam's Nagaon district . The district and sessions court convicted Zakir Hussain (19), the main accused, on Monday. Earlier, a juvenile court had sent two other minors accused in the case to a correctional home for three years.On March 23, Hussain, along with two minor boys, had gang-raped the minor girl and set her on fire. The victim later succumbed during treatment. In her dying statement, she had identified the culprits."Hussain was charged with gang-rape, house trespassing, causing disappearance of evidence and murder as well as under the Pocso Act, advocate Manash Jyoti Neog said.

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