INDIA: COURT AWARDS DEATH PENALTY TO THREE FOR KILLING MINOR

October 2, 2019:

Bokaro district court in the Indian state of Jharkhand on 26 September 2019 awarded death sentence to three persons for killing a minor in November 2013. The court also slapped a fine of Rs 1.50 lakh on each of them.
The court of District and Session Judge-II Janardhan Singh convicted Vivek Singh, Sanjay Kumar Rajak and Sanjeev Kumar for kidnapping and murder of a minor boy Sudhanshu on 26 November 2013 and pronounced that they should be hanged till death, informed Rakesh Kumar Rai Public prosecutor of district court Bokaro.
The 11-year-old boy Sudhanshu was kidnapped and later killed by four youths.
With the sole intention of making up huge money, four youths kidnapped the schoolboy for ransom and murdered him to escape being identified on 27 November.
Police recovered the decomposed body of Sudhanshu from the bushes close to GT road in Hazaribagh district under Gorhar police station area on 8 December.