By IANS
Bhopal : A court here Saturday sentenced a man to death for raping and killing a 10-year-old girl in 2005.
District Sessions Judge Renu Sharma awarded the death sentence to Dilip Bankar who had taken the girl for an outing and raped her before killing her Aug 21, 2005.
Though Bankar's counsel had pleaded before the court that his client be given life imprisonment since he was mentally ill, government counsel H.L. Jha said he be hanged to death since he was a habitual criminal and had raped at least five minor girls in the past.