A fast track women's court in here has awarded death sentence to a man in a five-year-old case of rape and murder of a minor girl.
The court of Seema Sinha, which convicted Visesh Mahato on September 30, pronounced capital punishment for raping a 10-year-old girl, axing her to death and then dumping her in a well at Chandrokopi village in Bedo block in May 2008.
After her father filed an FIR against unidentified persons, two villagers identified Mahato as the perpetrator of the crime.
