RAIPUR, India : A court in India has sentenced five men to death for the horrible gang rape and murder of a student as well as the shooting of her parents and toddler-aged daughter.
The crime was committed in January 2021 when the people offered the girl and her family – all users of a impoverished ethnic group in the northern state of Chhattisgarh – lifts on their scooters while they were waiting for public transportation.
They eventually clubbed the child’s parents to dying as he attempted to stop the murder and killed her three-year-old daughter, people attorney Sunil Kumar Mishra told AFP.
The next target was found unconscious by people several weeks later and died on her way to doctor.
Five men were found guilty of the rape and triple murder” and condemned to death”, Mishra said on Thursday ( Jan 23 ), the day after the sentence was published by the court.
A fifth man “was found guilty of partnership in offences, but his participation in murder was no proved, so he was sentenced to imprisonment for the remainder of his life for murders”, he added.