A Kolkata court on Saturday pronounced death penalty to three convicts of the Kamduni rape and murder case, while the remaining three were sentenced to life term imprisonment.
Six of the accused were held guilty for gangraping and murdering a woman at Kamduni village in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district in 2013.
On June 7, 2013, a B.A. second year student was allegedly gang-raped and murdered by few local miscreants inside an isolated compound at Kamduni village, while she was returning home from her college. Her body was found the next day.
Nine persons were arrested in connection with this case. Gopal Naskar, one of the arrested persons, died of fever and septicaemia in custody on August 1 last year.
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