潑女護士硫酸致死 印度男子被判死刑

A man in the Indian city of Mumbai has been sentenced to death for a fatal acid attack on a woman at a busy railway station three years ago, in what is being seen as a legal landmark.

三年前，在一個繁忙的火車站，因向一名女子潑硫酸並致其死亡，印度孟買一名男子日前被判處死刑，這是印度法律史上的一個里程碑事件。

Preeti Rathi, who was 23 when she was murdered, had just arrived from Delhi to join the Indian navy as a nurse.

受害人拉蒂·瑞斯當時年僅23歲，她從家鄉德里來到孟買，準備加入印度海軍擔任隨軍護士。

Her neighbour Ankur Panwar attacked her after she rejected a marriage proposal.

她的鄰居安庫爾·潘沃在向其求婚被拒之後襲擊了她。

It is the first such sentence for an acid attack in India. Many such attacks go unpunished.

這是印度潑硫酸襲擊案件中，第一起被告被判處死刑的案件。很多這樣的罪犯並未受到處分。

Panwar, 25, was convicted of murder and other offences at a special court in the city last Tuesday. He is likely to appeal against the verdict in a higher court.

上週二，在孟買的一個特別法庭上，25歲的潘沃被判犯謀殺罪以及其他罪名。他極可能向上級法院提起上訴。

Ms Rathi, who suffered severe injuries to her lungs and eyes in the attack on 2 May 2013, died a month later.

2013年5月2日，瑞斯女士的肺部和眼睛因受硫酸襲擊嚴重受傷，一個月後便離開了人世。

A month after her death, India's Supreme Court ordered federal and state governments to regulate the sale of acid.

她去世後一個月，印度最高法院要求聯邦和各邦政府嚴格監管硫酸的銷售。

According to government figures, there are hundreds of such attacks a year; but the real figures are much higher.

據政府數據表明，每年發生的硫酸襲擊案高達數百起，不過真實數字據悉會更高。