Man sentenced to death for raping, killing 9-year-old girl in UP
Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh), A court here on Wednesday awarded death sentence to a man for raping and killing a nine-year-old girl last year.
Special POCSO Judge Amit Kumar Prajpati said the culprit should be hanged till death.
Kapil Kashyap was held guilty by the court on Monday and the court had reserved its decision for Wednesday, Special Public Prosecutor Sanjiv Bakharwa said.
On August 18 last year, two sisters, aged nine and six, were lured by Kashyap who promised to give them ice creams.
He took them on his bicycle to a sugarcane field, and tried to rape both the girls.PTI