Chandigarh, Aug. 5 -- Four years after a trial court awarded death sentence to two persons for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in 2018, the Punjab and Haryana high court has remanded back the case after it found some "irregularities" in the trial.

It was on February 18, 2022, a fast-track court in Panipat had awarded death penalty to accused Pradeep Kumar, 32, and Sagar, 26 for the rape of the minor girl reported on January 14, 2018, at a village in Panipat district. The victim was staying at the residence of her maternal uncle and the accused had kidnapped her when she came out of the house to dump garbage at 7pm. When the girl did not return home, her family filed a complaint. At 11pm on the same day, the girl's body was reco...