A youth was on Wednesday sentenced to death by a local court for beheading a girl student in a college campus here on April 28 last year.
The District and Sessions Court of S.H. Kazmi pronounced the capital punishment against Vijendra Kumar for chopping off the head of intermediate student Khusboo outside an examination hall.
The court had on April 26 convicted Kumar for the crime. Kumar, who hails from Jamshedpur, had beheaded Khusboo with a sharp weapon as soon as she came out of the examination hall. He was overpowered by other students and handed over to the Jharkhand police.