Man sentenced to death for raping 3-yr-old

A court here today sentenced a man to death for raping a three-year-old girl in Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu district.

The accused Vinod had sexually assaulted the minor girl who had come to meet her maternal grandparents. A case was registered at Alsisar police station on August 2, assistant public prosecutor Lokendra Singh Khudania said.

He said that the accused was arrested within 24 hours of the incident and a chargesheet was presented in the court in 10 days.

Considering the seriousness of the case, a POCSO court of Judge Neerja Dadhich awarded death sentence to the man in mere 19 days after filing the chargesheet.

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