Lucknow The Auraiya court docket on Wednesday awarded capital punishment to a man convicted for raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl. This conviction and sentence of the accused befell in a speedy method in practically three months after the incident was reported on March 25 earlier this yr.
“The court docket noticed that the act of the accused was extra horrifying than the act of an animal. The court docket stated the Indian tradition revolved round ladies and such crimes weren’t acceptable in our society,” acknowledged a press be aware shared by the house division on Wednesday.
The house division officers stated extra director common (ADG) of police, Kanpur Zone, Alok Singh has introduced a reward of ₹25,000 for the workforce of police and prosecution for such swift and quick authorized proceedings within the case.
The press be aware stated that the accused was recognized as Gautam Singh Dohre (40) and he had raped the girl after luring her with the promise of eatables in a village beneath Ayana police station limits of Auraiya. The accused was beneath the affect of liquor and smothered the girl to death to hide his id as she would have simply recognized him after the crime.
Earlier, the police had filed the charge-sheet in opposition to the accused inside eight days after his arrest. The court docket had framed the costs in opposition to him beneath Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 302 for murder, 376 for rape, 201 for concealment of crime in addition to sections of Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and convicted him on June 23. The particular choose of POCSO court docket pronounced the punishment within the case on Wednesday.
Life time period to rapist of 6-year-old girl in Etawah
In one other incident of rape with a 6-year-old girl in Etawah, the native court docket on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment to man and slapped a penalty of ₹2lakh on him, stated police officers right here on Wednesday.
The accused was Amit Kumar alias Daboo, a resident of Badpura in Etawah.
In keeping with the police, the accused had raped the girl after holding her captive at a abandoned place in a subject and left her bleeding profusely after the crime on Might 2, 2022. The girl’s father had lodged the FIR beneath IPC sections 363 for kidnapping a minor, 376AB for rape with a girl under 12 years of age, 323 for voluntarily inflicting harm and part 5/6 of Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act for aggravated penetrative sexual assault, after which the accused was arrested on the identical day.
They stated the police had filed the charge-sheet within the case on July 8, 2022, and the trial was began within the POCSO court docket of Etawah. “On account of efficient prosecution of police and prosecution officers, the court docket convicted the accused and sentenced him to life imprisonment for his heinous act,” police officers stated.