Agartala, Feb 21 (TIWN) In a barbaric incident, a 6-year-old girl was murdered after being raped by a 30-year-old man in southern Tripura, police said on Friday.

The accused, Mohd Mustaq, had lured the victim to a school in a village 28 km from Cuttack with a chocolate and raped her on April 21, 2018. She had injuries on her head, face, chest and private parts and marks of strangulation on her neck. She died in a hospital of injuries eight days later. Additional sessions judge, Cuttack, Bandana Kar, who presided over the Pocso court awarded the death sentence while calling the crime "rarest of rare". Mustaq was found guilty under sections 376 a-b (rape on minor girl below 12 years of age), 302 (murder), 363 (abduction) of the IPC and the relevant sections of the Pocso Act.