UP Man Gets Death Sentence For Murdering Infant, Her Parents

Judge Kumar awarded the death penalty to the convict ruling that the murders committed by him fell in "the rarest of rare" category of crime.

An Azamgarh court on Wednesday gave a death sentence to a man for killing three members of a family, including a four-month-old child, after raping her mother in a village under Mubarakpur police station of the district 17 months ago. The two others killed were the child's 30-year-old mother and 35-year-old father. Special POCSO Court Judge Ramendra Kumar sentenced the accused Nazeeruddin after convicting him of three counts of murder and one rape. Judge Kumar awarded the death penalty to the convict ruling that the murders committed by him fell in "the rarest of rare" category of crime.