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Teenagers get life in prison for rape and murder


28 March 2019  

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GAIGHAT: Udayapur District Court has convicted two teenage boys of rape and murder of a minor girl, slapping life imprisonment on them.

A single bench of Judge Tejendra Prasad Sharma handed down the verdict against 16-year-old and 17-year-old boy on the charge of raping and murdering Aljina Khadka, 13, of Lafagaun in Rautamai Rural Municipality-3 in Udayapur on October 23.

According to the Registrar at the District Court Udayapur, Raj Kumar Acharya, the 16-year-old convict was sentenced to 12 years in jail along with  a fine of Rs 100,000 while 16 years of life sentence and Rs 30,000 in fine was slapped on another 17-year-old convict.

Since both the convicts were juvenile, they will not have to serve life sentence as in the case of an adult. Therefore, they will serve half of the life sentence, shared Registrar Acharya.

The body of the minor was found buried in a jungle in Kharibari in Udayapur. Police had arrested the alleged rapist and murders with the support of trained sniffer dogs. After a thorough investigation, they were found guilty of raping and murdering the minor.

Publish Date : 28 March 2019 13:04 PM

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