A POCSO court in Surat on Tuesday awarded death sentence to a 35-year-old migrant worker for raping and murdering a two-and-a-half-year-old girl last month here in Gujarat, terming it as the "rarest of rare" case.

To ensure fast justice delivery, the Pandesara police here had submitted the chargesheet in seven days after the arrest of the accused on November 8. The court had recorded statements of 43 witnesses and the judgment came within a month.