India, Aug. 7 -- A court in Bengal's West Burdwan district sentenced a 42-year-old man to death on Wednesday for raping and murdering his 14-year-old daughter in May last year, lawyers who attended the hearing said.

"The accused was sentenced by judge Suparna Bandopadhyay under multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (Pocso)," Somnath Chattoraj, the public prosecutor, said.

The girl was strangled to death at her home on May 13 last year. Her mother, who discovered the body the next morning, lodged a police complaint.

The postmortem confirmed that she was raped before being murdered, the lawyer said. "Police found the rope with which he strangulated his daughter after rapi...