A court here has sentenced a 33-year-old woman to life imprisonment for kidnapping and killing a toddler, a government lawyer said on Saturday.
First Additional District and Sessions Judge Leena Agrawal on Friday found Ganga Banjare of Navagaon village guilty of murdering two-and-a-half-year-old Namrata Nirala, Additional Public Prosecutor Vijay Kumar Bhoi said.
The accused was also convicted under Section 364 of the Indian Penal Code for kidnapping Namrata and her four-year-old sister Nikita and was fined Rs 3,000.
Banjare kidnapped the sisters on September 23, 2019 and took them to her home in Mandir Hasaud village of Raipur where she strangled Namrata, Bhoi said. The accused buried the child’s body in the village.
The police rescued Nikita and recovered Namrata’s body.