Preeti Rathi case: Convict Ankur Panwar given death sentence

September 08, 2016 15:14

The Mumbai sessions court has awarded the death sentence to convict Ankur Panwar in the Preeti Rathi acid-attack-murder case. On Tuesday, the court had found Panwar guilty of sections 302 (murder) and 326 B (Voluntarily throwing acid) of the IPC.

Panwar had thrown acid on Preeti, who had come to Mumbai to join as a nurse in a defence hospital in May 2013.

A month later, she died of multiple organ failure.

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