A court in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district Friday sentenced two men to double life sentences for kidnapping and killing a 10-year-old boy in February last year.
Abhilash Mohanpurkar and Shyam Magre, both residents of Tilaknagar, had abducted Wardhan Vivek Ghode and demanded a ransom of Rs 5 crore from his parents on February 27, 2017.
They then throttled the minor in Daulatabad village and disposed of his body in a nullah in Shreynagar.
District and Session Judge V V Patil Friday pronounced both guilty of murder under IPC 302 (murder) and IPC 120 (B) (Criminal conspiracy) and gave them double life sentences running concurrently and also slapped a fine of Rs 2.5 lakh each.
The Jawahar Nagar Police, which investigated the incident, had filed a 750-page charge sheet in the case.
A total of 40 witnesses deposed and CCTV footage and DNA reports were examined during the trial.
Special public prosecutor Ajay Misar had termed the case as a "rarest of rare" one and had asked the court to sentence the two men to death.
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