West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Friday said he favoured capital punishment for Dhananjay Chatterjee, convicted for rape and murder of a school girl in Kolkata in 1990.

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The chief minister said a message should go to the perpetrators of such dastardly crimes.
 
"In this case, I am in favour of death sentence. I mean death by hanging," he told reporters in Kolkata.

The chief minister's statement came a day after the Communist Party of India (Marxist) secretary Anil Biswas called for evolving a consensus to ban death sentence by hanging.