New Delhi, March 1 -- A city court on Friday awarded death sentence to a man in the rape and murder case of a minor in 2019 saying he was a "menace to the society" and held offence fell in the "rarest of rare" category.
Additional sessions judge Babita Puniya also sentenced the man's father Ram Saran to life term imprisonment for participating in the "gruesome murder of an innocent defenceless child to wipe out the evidence of rape committed by his son and convict Rajender".
The court said Rajender had "no probability of his reformation" and deserved to be "removed from the society".
He was sentenced under the provisions of POCSO Act and IPC. Law prescribes confirmation of death penalties by high courts. Rajender and his father were conv...