PATNA, Nov. 29 -- A 35-year-old woman was sentenced to death by a local court in Bihar's Araria district on Thursday for murdering her 10-year-old daughter in 2023. Calling it "rarest of the rare", the sessions court sentenced Poonam Devi to death and the additional district judge said the heinous act committed by a mother against her own child "shakes the conscience of society". The court said that the sentence will not be executed till the decision was upheld by the high court. The death sentence was given under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), rigorous imprisonment for a term of seven years and a fine of Rs.50,000 under Section 328 of IPC, rigorous imprisonment for a term of five years and a monetary fine of Rs.10,000 under Section 201 and to undergo additional rigorous imprisonment of 18 months. The case was registered in Narpatganj police station on July 10, 2023 on the basis of the statement of chowkidar Bhagwan Kumar. In the first information report (FIR), the complainant said that Poonam's husband Chandan Singh had gone to Punjab to earn a livelihood. In his absence, she started an affair with someone. As her daughter came to know, she killed her to conceal her affair....