Rohtak, April 10 -- An additional district and sessions court in Fatehabad on Wednesday awarded death penalty to two farm labourers for raping a three and a half-year-old girl in a field in a Fatehabad village on the night of June 29-30 last year.

The girl died after battling for her life for eight days at Rohtak's Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS).

The additional district and sessions judge (fast track special court under POCSO Act) Amit Garg awarded death penalty to two farm labourers Mukesh and Satish, both residents of Uttar Pradesh and staying in Haryana for the last several years. They were convicted under sections 363 (kidnapping), 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance with common intention), 366 and 3...