Ranchi, Jul 18 (PTI) The Jharkhand High Court on Friday commuted a man's death penalty in a minor's rape and murder case to life imprisonment.

A division bench heard the appeal filed by Gandhi Oraon who was convicted by a sessions court here for rape and murder of a minor and awarded death sentence on January 31, 2018.

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The division bench said it did not find the case to be the"rarest of rare" and commuted the death sentence awarded to Oraon to life imprisonment.

Oraon was found guilty of rape and murder of a minor on March 19, 2014. He had dumped her body in the graveyard at Kantatoli in the capital.

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