India, Aug. 21 -- A Dhemaji court on Thursday sentenced a man to death for the brutal murder of college undergraduate student Nandita Saikia, who was killed with a machete on a road in 2021 because she had rebuffed his advances.

District and sessions judge Ajay Faglu awarded the death penalty to Rintu Sarma, a class 4 employee of Moridhal College, for murder, holding that this Saikia's murder fell under the "rarest of rare" category.

Sarma was also sentenced to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment under Section 307 (attempt to murder) and three years under Section 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons).

On August 21, 2021, Nandita, a student of Moridhal College, was returning home with her classmate Kashmina Dutta and Kashmin...