India News | Man Gets Life Term for Abducting, Murdering Dalit Boy

Muzaffarnagar, Nov 20 (PTI) A special court on Saturday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for abducting and murdering a 17-year-old Dalit boy here.

Special judge for Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe cases Jamshed Ali also imposed a fine of Rs 40,000 on convict Rajkumar after holding him guilty under Indian Penal Code sections 364 (kidnapping), 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence).

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According to special counsel Yashpal Singh, Dalit boy Arun was abducted and murdered by Rajkumar and later dumped his body in a Ganga canal at Khanpur village in the Mansurpur area of the district on April 10, 2017.

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