In a sensational judgment, the first additional district judge K Jayakumar on Thursday handed down the death penalty by hanging to the accused in the rape and murder of a nine-month-old baby at Kumarpally, Hanamkonda.
The baby, asleep with her mother on the terrace of the house, was kidnapped, raped and murdered by Polepaka Praveen (26) of Vasanthapur village of Shayampet mandal in Warangal Rural district in the wee hours of June 19.