September 08, 2016

Death penalty for Indian acid attack



  Indian performers act out an acid attack as they mark the beginning of a hunger strike by acid attack survivors in New Delhi on December 12, 2014.
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A court in the Indian city of Mumbai has given the death penalty to a man for throwing acid at a woman at a busy railway station three years ago.

23 years old Preeti Rathi, who was attacked, had just arrived from Delhi to join the Indian navy as a nurse.


according to BBC NEWS, Her neighbour, Ankur Panwar, had said he attacked her because she had rejected his proposal to marry him.

Panwar, 25, was convicted of murder and other offences on Tuesday.
On Thursday, the court said that the crime fell within the "rarest of rare" category which justified the death penalty.

Ms Rathi, who suffered severe injuries to her lungs and eyes in the attack on 2 May 2013, died a month later.

A month after her death, India's Supreme Court ordered federal and state governments to regulate the sale of acid.

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