Guwahati, March 18 -- District & sessions judge in Papum Pare district, Arunachal Pradesh has given life imprisonment to Majibur Rahmanm one of the main accused in the 2008 Akashdeep twin rape and murder case.

Itanagar police rearrested Rahman last year after a decade of manhunt. He had escaped from the Jully jail in 2012, along with two others under trial prisoners.

A resident of Gohaidholoni village in Sunapur circle of North Lakhimpur district in Assam, Rahman, before committing the gruesome act of murder and rape in 2008.

Rahman had a history of criminal activity, being a habitual thief and part of a gang involved in numerous thefts across Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.

Police arrested Rahman, along with Md Najirul Islam and one CCL...