Court upholds death penalty for rape and murder convict

Court upholds death penalty for rape and murder convict

Kota Man Had Killed Mentally Challenged Minor Daughter

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Kota:28.01.2021 

A Pocso court in Kota on Wednesday upheld the conviction of death penalty of a 45-year-old man for raping and murdering his 15-year-old mentally challenged daughter in his house in Nayapura police station area of Kota city five years ago. The court also slapped a penalty of Rs 10,000 upon the convict.

However, the Pocso court-1 in Kota on January 20, 2020, terming the crime ‘most heinous’ and ‘shameful for human society’, had convicted the man to death sentence by hanging him till his last breath and had also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000, following which the convict appealed in the high court against the conviction. The high court directed the Pocso court for cross examination with the deceased minor’s mother in the court.

As per the directions by the high court, the cross examination with the deceased minor girl’s mother was carried out in the court where the statements of the mother remained the same and unchanged and the three witnesses produced in defense also could not state significantly in the case, public prosecutor (PP), Pocso court–1 Premnarayan Namdev said.

The Pocso court judge Ashok Choudhary on Wednesday upheld his previous decision and convicted the 45-year-old man to life sentence by hanging and also imposed a penalty of Rs 10,000, he said.

“If the crime is committed by accused father as a result to satisfy his lust, it is apt to shake internal social bondage of a particular man, family and society,” the Pocso court judge observed in his judgment.

The 15-year-old mentally challenged girl was found murdered on May 13, 2015 in her house. The postmortem report revealed she was 4 months pregnant. When the DNA report of the samples of deceased minor girl disclosed her father was the father of the 4 month foetus and later, when the statements of deceased minor’s mother verified that the father had been raping the daughter for long and that resulted in the pregnancy, the Nayapura police two months later filed a chargesheet against the father in the court.

The Pocso court-1 in the city on January 20, 2020, following hearing and examination of the statements of 18 witnesses in the case, had convicted the accused man to death.

The convicted man, father of 6 children, including the deceased minor girl, worked as a guard at a warehouse in the city and he himself lodged a report in Nayapura police station on May 13, 2015 and alleged that when he returned home in the evening, he found his daughter brutally murdered in the house. The mother of the deceased minor ran a tea stall outside the warehouse and her younger brother would attend the mother at the tea stall.