Man sentenced for rape, murder of two-year-old girl
Kolkata, March 29, 2019: A city court on Thursday sentenced a man to death for the rape and murder of a two-and-a-half- year-old girl in the city in 2013.
Terming the crime committed by Suresh Paswan as "rarest of rare" incident, chief judge of City Sessions Court Siddhartha Kanjilal sentenced him to death by hanging.
Some children, who lived nearby, found the girl the next morning in a gutter near the race course.
The victim was taken to the state-run SSKM Hospital, where she was declared brought dead.
The post mortem examination report stated that she was raped and then throttled to death.
Police registered a case and following investigation, tracked Paswan to his uncle's house in Bihar and arrested him.
Following a six-year trial, the court Thursday sentenced him to death.
(PTI)