In the four-year-old Gudiya rape and murder case, a local court found Anil alias guilty and sentenced him to life imprisonment on Friday.

Anil Kumar, a woodcutter, was found guilty under several sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. On July 4, 2017, the Class 10 student in Shimla's Kotkhai left her school but never reached home.

Two days later, her body was found in a ditch in a nearby forest, with her clothes, an empty liquor bottle and some other items scattered around her. The autopsy indicated she was raped and died due to strangulation.

District and Sessions Judge, Shimla, Rajiv Bharadwaj, who is also Special Judge of CBI Court said that out of the 14 crucial points of evidence produced by the CBI, 12 were found to be against Nilu.

The conviction was based on the fact that DNA from a blood sample of Nilu matched with the semen on the private parts and clothes of the victim and soil samples from clothes matched with the soil samples taken from the spot where the body of the deceased was found. The bite marks on the body of the deceased were also found to be of Nilu's in forensic investigations. The case had sparked massive protest in and around Shimla, with a mob setting Kotkhai police station and vehicles on fire.

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