Chandigarh, Nov. 28 -- Over 15 years after a 21-year-old MBA student was raped and murdered in Sector 38 West in 2010, a local court on Thursday convicted taxi driver Monu Kumar, who was nailed through semen preserved from the victim's body.

While a copy of the order wasn't available on Thursday, the court of additional district and sessions judge Dr Yashika convicted Kumar under Sections 302 (murder) and 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code.

The quantum of sentence will be pronounced on Friday by the Special Women and Child Court. The victim's family said they will speak to the media only after the sentencing.

Having managed to evade arrest for over a decade, Kumar, 39, was finally apprehended in May 2024 after an eerily similar crime ...