Jagatsinghpur: The Jagatsinghpur Special POCSO Court today sentenced two persons to death by hanging after convicting them for gang rape and murder of a minor girl in 2014.
While Sk Asif and Sk Akil have been sentenced to death, the other two accused persons Sk Karim and Sk Abid were acquitted by the court for lack of evidence against them.
The convicts had waylaid the 8-year-old victim of Krishnaanandpur in Tirtol police limits in 2014 while she was returning home after buying chocolates from a neighbourhood shop. Later they murdered her after raping her in turns.
Police had registered a case against the four under sections 302,376,376(D) of IPC.
