Death sentence awarded to Kopardi rape-murder case convicts
The Ahmednagar district and sessions court on Wednesday awarded death sentence to Jitendra Shinde, Nitin Bhailume, and Santosh Bhaval, convicted for conspiring, raping, and murdering a 15-year-old girl in Maharashtra's Kopardi last year. The incident had triggered massive protests by the Maratha community in the state, which demanded capital punishment for the accused.