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Five get life term for rape, murder of 12-year-old girl in U.P.'s Maharajganj

A court in Maharajganj has sentenced five men to life imprisonment after convicting them in a case of gang rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl.

Special Public Prosecutor Vinod Singh said that the court of Additional Sessions Judge Vinay Kumar Singh on Friday sentenced five men - Pankaj Sahni, Vivek, Govind Chauhan, Sonu and Ram Narayan Rajbhar - all in their late twenties in a 2021 case of the minor girl's gang rape and murder.

The court also imposed a fine of ₹90,000 on each of the convicts.

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