India | Brother, uncle get double death sentence for raping, beheading 12-year-old girl; child rapist, killer sentenced to death within a month of crime
The girl’s body was found in an agricultural field a day after she went missing on March 13, 2019. It later emerged that her brother had abducted and taken her to their uncle’s house
A local court in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district has convicted a 12-year-old girl’s brother and uncle for raping, beheading her, and awarded them a double death penalty, calling the case rarest of the rare that warrants nothing less than capital punishment.
Special public prosecutor Tahir Khan said special sessions judge Umashankar Agrawal awarded the double death penalty to the 22-year-old brother and 42-year-old uncle under Section 376-A (rape) and Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code.
According to the prosecution, the girl’s beheaded body was found in an agricultural field a day after she went missing on March 13, 2019.
It later emerged that the girl’s brother had abducted and taken her to their uncle’s house where the two convicts raped her before beheading her with a sickle. She was also sodomised.
Khan said 29 witnesses recorded their statements and the sickle was recovered from the house of one of the accused.
“The DNA and post mortem report corroborated the prosecution’s charges,” he said.
“I urged the court that the girl used to tie rakhi on her brother’s wrist for protection but this brother crossed all the limits and committed an inhuman act.”
Source: hindustantimes.com, Anupam Pateriya, January 21, 2021
Man gets death penalty for rape, murder
A special POCSO court sentenced a man to death on Wednesday for raping and murdering a 2-year-old girl here, the verdict coming within a month of the crime.
The girl was found behind the roadside bushes in Kavi Nagar area on December 21, public prosecutor Utkarsh Vats told the media.
Special POCSO court judge Mahendra Srivastava awarded the death penalty to Chandan, who was a close friend of the girl''s father.
Ten witnesses were produced before the court, Vats said, describing the verdict within 29 days as landmark.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Avinash Kumar said the culprit was arrested soon after the crime and a charge sheet was filed on December 29.
Source: outlookindia.com, Staff, January 21, 2021
UP rape and murder case: Death penalty awarded in record 23 days
In one of the fastest trials and delivery of justice in the country in a rape and murder case, POCSO Court Ghaziabad awarded death penalty to a man, accused of rape and murder of a 2 1/2 years old girl, in record 23 days.
The body of a child was found in bushes in Kavinagar area of UP’s Ghaziabad on October 21, 2020. The autopsy report confirmed the girl was brutally raped before being killed.
On the complaint of her father, the Ghaziabad Police swung into action and had cracked the case within a day by arresting Chandan, a friend of Girl’s father.
During the interrogation, Chandan confessed to his crime.
After collecting all evidences, the police had filed the charge-sheet in the case on December 29, 2020 in the POCSO Court.
To speed up the trial, the Court heard the case on priority.
With the self-confession, forensic and circumstantial evidences going against the accused, the POCSO Court delivered the verdict on Wednesday, making it one of the fastest trials and judgments in the country.
Source: freepressjournal.in, Staff, January 21, 2021
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