India, April 11 -- A court in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala on Thursday found a 40-year-old Tamil Nadu resident guilty of murdering a woman inside a nursery in the city with the motive of stealing her gold ornament in February 2022.

The accused Rajendran, a resident of Kanyakumari district, was pronounced guilty by the Thiruvananthapuram additional district and sessions court - VII and the punishment will be pronounced on April 21.

Judge Prasun Mohan convicted the accused under section 302 (murder), 447 (criminal trespass), 397 (robbery causing grievous hurt or death) and 201 (destruction of evidence) under the IPC, said special public prosecutor M Salahudeen.

The prosecution said the case belonged to the category of "rarest of the rare" ...