Dilesh Dinesh Somalya Kharpade has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a court for killing a 14-year-old girl in 2016.

Dilesh killed the minor with an axe after she rejected his marriage proposal.

The incident happened in Jawhar Taluka.

District Judge P P Jadhav also fined Dilesh Dinesh Somalya Kharpade with Rs. 10,000, Dilesh was a laborer who worked in Jawhar.

Dilesh killed the minor with an axe on October 31, 2016, after she refused to marry him.

The girl who was with the minor when the incident happened narrated the incident to the court which led to the conviction of Dilesh.