Death sentence of Theni rape, murder convict upheld
Srikkanth.D@timesgroup.com
Madurai:14.03.2019
The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence by a trial court of a man who raped and murdered a college student and her male friend near Suruli fallls in Theni in 2011 In March 2018, the principal district and sessions judge, Theni, sentenced Diwakar to death after the offences against him were proved.
The verdict was referred before the division bench of Justices R Subbiah and B Pugalendhi and the bench upheld the trial court’s verdict.
Diwakar, now 30, had committed the crime when attempting to rob the couple after confronting them when they were spending time together near the falls, the prosecution held. He had also chopped off the limbs of the woman after raping her.
The woman’s family had filed a missing complaint initially and five days later, both the bodies were found in the forest area. The Rayappanpatti police eventually arrested the accused and substantial circumstantial evidence proved that he had committed the crime.
Diwakar, before the rape and murder, had threatened another couple the same day in the forest region and the man identified the accused after he came to know that a couple had been murdered.
“The brutality of the attack on the young and helpless girl, after raping her, would show the inhuman act of the accused. We are shocked by the savagery of the offence,” the division bench said, adding that the conduct of the accused showed that he is an extremist and would be a menace to society The bench also noted that the accused had criminal antecedents and he once attacked a policeman with a sharp object when police attempted to arrest him for jumping bail in this case.
Holding that the present case came under the rarest of rare category propounded by the Supreme Court, the division bench upheld the trial court’s order.
Diwakar raped and murdered a college student and her male friend near Suruli fallls in Theni in 2011. He had also chopped off the limbs of the woman after raping her
Srikkanth.D@timesgroup.com
Madurai:14.03.2019
The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence by a trial court of a man who raped and murdered a college student and her male friend near Suruli fallls in Theni in 2011 In March 2018, the principal district and sessions judge, Theni, sentenced Diwakar to death after the offences against him were proved.
The verdict was referred before the division bench of Justices R Subbiah and B Pugalendhi and the bench upheld the trial court’s verdict.
Diwakar, now 30, had committed the crime when attempting to rob the couple after confronting them when they were spending time together near the falls, the prosecution held. He had also chopped off the limbs of the woman after raping her.
The woman’s family had filed a missing complaint initially and five days later, both the bodies were found in the forest area. The Rayappanpatti police eventually arrested the accused and substantial circumstantial evidence proved that he had committed the crime.
Diwakar, before the rape and murder, had threatened another couple the same day in the forest region and the man identified the accused after he came to know that a couple had been murdered.
“The brutality of the attack on the young and helpless girl, after raping her, would show the inhuman act of the accused. We are shocked by the savagery of the offence,” the division bench said, adding that the conduct of the accused showed that he is an extremist and would be a menace to society The bench also noted that the accused had criminal antecedents and he once attacked a policeman with a sharp object when police attempted to arrest him for jumping bail in this case.
Holding that the present case came under the rarest of rare category propounded by the Supreme Court, the division bench upheld the trial court’s order.
Diwakar raped and murdered a college student and her male friend near Suruli fallls in Theni in 2011. He had also chopped off the limbs of the woman after raping her
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