Death for India acid attack convict

An Indian court sentenced a man to death yesterday for murdering a woman by throwing acid on her face after she rejected his marriage proposal, a decision applauded by the victim's family. Ankur Panwar was found guilty on Tuesday of hurling sulphuric acid on 24-year-old Preeti Rathi in a fit of jealousy outside a railway station in the financial capital Mumbai in May 2013.