1ST ORDER UNDER CHILD RAPE LAW
Death warrant to MP teacher for raping 4-year-old
Ashutosh Shukla & Siddharth Pandey TNN
Jabalpur/Bhopal:04.02.2019
Satna district court has issued the “death warrant” against a schoolteacher convicted of raping a four-year-old child.
The child had to spend months in AIIMS-Delhi to recover after the attack, enduring multiple surgeries to get her intestines realigned.
The execution date for Mahendra Singh Gond has been fixed for March 2 in Jabalpur jail. Officials say he will be hanged unless SC orders a stay. From crime to confirmation of death sentence, it took only seven months. If he is executed, it would be the first under the new law to hang child rapists.
Gond had abducted the child on June 30, 2018, raped her in the jungles and dumped her there. Family members found her in the wee hours, barely alive, and took her to hospital. The state government immediately had her airlifted to Delhi. Police acted swiftly and arrested Gond within hours.
The conviction was unique since the survivor’s statement was taken via videoconferencing and was vital in proving him guilty. A division bench of MP high court confirmed the death sentence on January 25, 2019, holding his crime to be “rarest of rare”.
Justice P K Jaiswal and Justice Anjuli Palo said: “Courts cannot evade their duty to be tough with hardcore criminals so that there is some deterrent against indulging in such gruesome crimes, particularly because such crimes are on the rise. The incident assumes greater significance because the person involved is a teacher, who is supposed to teach lessons in morality to his students.”
Full report on www.toi.in
Death warrant to MP teacher for raping 4-year-old
Ashutosh Shukla & Siddharth Pandey TNN
Jabalpur/Bhopal:04.02.2019
Satna district court has issued the “death warrant” against a schoolteacher convicted of raping a four-year-old child.
The child had to spend months in AIIMS-Delhi to recover after the attack, enduring multiple surgeries to get her intestines realigned.
The execution date for Mahendra Singh Gond has been fixed for March 2 in Jabalpur jail. Officials say he will be hanged unless SC orders a stay. From crime to confirmation of death sentence, it took only seven months. If he is executed, it would be the first under the new law to hang child rapists.
Gond had abducted the child on June 30, 2018, raped her in the jungles and dumped her there. Family members found her in the wee hours, barely alive, and took her to hospital. The state government immediately had her airlifted to Delhi. Police acted swiftly and arrested Gond within hours.
The conviction was unique since the survivor’s statement was taken via videoconferencing and was vital in proving him guilty. A division bench of MP high court confirmed the death sentence on January 25, 2019, holding his crime to be “rarest of rare”.
Justice P K Jaiswal and Justice Anjuli Palo said: “Courts cannot evade their duty to be tough with hardcore criminals so that there is some deterrent against indulging in such gruesome crimes, particularly because such crimes are on the rise. The incident assumes greater significance because the person involved is a teacher, who is supposed to teach lessons in morality to his students.”
Full report on www.toi.in
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