Nothing less than capital punishment for rape convict, says Mamata

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It calls for the death penalty or life imprisonment for those convicted of rape, aiming to amend sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the new penal code.

Earlier on December 6, a POCSO court sentenced a man to death for the rape and murder of a 9-year-old in the Joynagar area of South 24 Parganas district.

CM Mamata had called the sentence "unprecedented" in the history of the state and lauded the police for the "outstanding achievement.