India, Feb. 18 -- A 34-year-old man was sentenced to death by a POCSO court in Kolkata on Tuesday for raping a seven-month-old girl in November 2024.

The child, a footpath-dweller in north Kolkata, is still battling for her life in the ICU of a State-run hospital and has already undergone four surgeries, the court was told.

"The court had held the man Rajib Ghosh guilty of rape on Monday. On Tuesday, while stating that the case fits into the rarest of the rare crime bracket, the court sentenced him to death," said Bivas Chatterjee, special public prosecutor.

Police said that some local residents of Burtolla in north Kolkata had found the child bleeding and crying on December 1, 2024. The police were alerted and on medical examination i...