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A 31-year-old man from Bar­rack­pore has been sen­tenced to a lit­tle over 18 years in prison af­ter ad­mit­ting that he mur­dered a 75-year-old man from Pe­nal dur­ing a home in­va­sion in 2017.

Ray­wadeo Ra­jeev Ra­noo, of Cun­jal South Trace, Bar­rack­pore, re­ceived the sen­tence yes­ter­day af­ter plead­ing guilty to felony mur­der be­fore Jus­tice Mau­ri­ceia Joseph.

Un­der the felony mur­der rule, the manda­to­ry death penal­ty is waived in cir­cum­stances where death oc­curs dur­ing the com­mis­sion of a less­er crim­i­nal of­fence, which in most cas­es is rob­bery.