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Supreme Court Orders Death Sentence to Man for Raping and Killing Minor Girl - (02 Aug 2019)

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Supreme Court has sent a man to the gallows for "horribly" gang-raping a 10-year-old girl along with a co-accused and killing her and her seven-year-old brother by throwing them in a canal with their hands tied. The Court while terming the offence as "shocking" and "cold-blooded" upheld the verdicts of the trial court and the Madras High Court to award death penalty to condemned convict Manoharan, saying that the offence fell under the "rarest of rare" category.

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