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Taxi driver sentenced to life for rape-murder of student
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
|November 29, 2025
HAVING EVADED ARREST FOR OVER A DECADE, KUMAR WAS NAILED THROUGH SEMEN PRESERVED FROM THE VICTIM'S BODY
A Chandigarh court has sentenced a taxi driver to life imprisonment for the 2010 rape-murder of a 21-year-old MBA student, observing that a "requisite sentence has to be imposed upon the convict to protect the society as a legitimate response to the collective conscience".
This story is from the November 29, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Bengaluru.
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