NEW DELHI: A 43-year-old man was on Saturday sentenced to death by a Delhi court that found him guilty of killing two minor nephews on July 28, 2003.

The court described the convict as a "predator".

Additional Sessions Judge Narottam Kaushal sentenced Rakesh Kumar to death for brutally killing his nephews -- nine-year-old Harshit and four-and-a-half-year-old Anshul. Rajesh had banged Harshit on the floor and slit Anshul's neck with a broken piece of glass.

The court observed that the two minors expected protection from an elder person in the family but instead he turned out to be a "predator''. The court also took note of the fact that the convict had decided to let out his anger and rage on hapless, innocent children after their father refused to help him financially.

Rejecting the defence plea for leniency, the court said the act was "devilish" and that even the wife of the accused and his two minor children seemed to have given up on him as they had not come to meet him even once. Rajesh, who was unemployed at the time of the incident, had gone to ask for financial help from his brother-in-law Mukesh Sethi at his house in Rajouri Garden, West Delhi. When Mr. Sethi refused, he got angry and killed his two sons.

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