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A city court on Tuesday handed down a death sentence to a man found guilty of raping and murdering a five-year-old girl.
The Metropolitan Sessions Judge sentenced Dinesh Kumar Dharne to death for the ghastly crime committed in 2017.
The 23-year-old, a migrant labourer from Madhya Pradesh, had raped and killed daughter of another migrant labourer from Odisha on December 12, 2017.
He was convicted under Sections 363, 366, 376(A), 302 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 5 read with 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POSCO) Act-2012 for kidnapping, rape and murder.
Rape, murder of minor