Agra, March 19 -- Two people were sentenced to life in prison, accused of setting a 15-year-old girl on fire, dousing her with an inflammable substance, on December 18, 2018. She succumbed to her burn injuries in a Delhi hospital on December 19, 2018.

The court of the additional district and sessions judge (Court No. 17) in Agra, Nitin Kumar Thakur, passed the verdict in the case on Tuesday and sentenced both accused - Vijay and Aakash - to a life in prison, besides imposing a penalty of Rs.2,61,500 on each.

On December 18, 2018, Sanjali was returning from school on her cycle when she was attacked by the accused. She was shifted to Delhi but breathed her last at Safdarjung Hospital on December 19, 2018.

The girl was set on fire by a ci...