Warangal: Warangal First Additional District & Sessions Court Judge Jay Kumar awarded a death sentence to the accused Sanjay Kumar Yadav (24), under sections 302, 380 and 354- C of IPC.  He is a worker at a gunny bag manufacturing unit, in the sensational killing of nine persons. His victims included six members of a family.

The incident had taken place at Gorrekunta village in the month of May. The accused killed ten people; he had first killed his living partner in March. The rest of the nine killings were committed a couple of months later to cover up the first murder. The trial in the murder of his live in partner is still on in Andhra Pradesh as he had committed the crime there. The prosecution also produced a video of the accused raping his live in partner’s 16 year old daughter. The video was found on accused phone.

A separate case has been registered against him for rape under sections of the POCSO Act, said Public Prosecutor M. Satyanarayana Goud. PP Satyanarayana Goud had argued in the Court that was a rarest of the rare case where the death sentence could be given because the number of people killed, the manner in which they were killed and also that the accused had raped a minor.