Through the investigation, the principle accused and his mom had confessed to the crime, police stated.
Pune:
The Periods Courtroom in Pune on Friday sentenced a 24-year-old man to loss of life for the rape and homicide of a six-year-old woman in Maval Taluka of Pune district.
In August 2022, the woman, aged six years, was enjoying within the courtyard of her home when the accused, a resident of Kamshet in Maval Taluka, kidnapped her, raped her, and slit her throat. The woman’s physique was discovered the subsequent day within the accused’s yard.
The mom of the accused was additionally sentenced to 7 years imprisonment for hiding proof and never reporting the incident to the police.
Through the investigation, each the accused had confessed to the crime however later pleaded not responsible after a chargesheet was filed within the court docket by the police.
In accordance with Public Prosecutor Senior Advocate Rajesh Kavediya, throughout the trial, the prosecution submitted that “on the idea of all proof introduced on report, the prosecution has proved past cheap doubt that the accused kidnapped the deceased woman whereas she was enjoying within the courtyard, took her to his dwelling, dedicated aggravated sexual assault on the deceased, and murdered her brutally by reducing her throat.
“The accused thereafter tried to cover the useless physique by burying it in a pit under a tree behind his home. His mom had hidden the garments and articles on the particular person of the deceased to guard her son from punishment, and so each accused must be convicted,” Mr Kavediya added.
He additional submitted that, “The accused is a intercourse maniac, obsessive about uncontrolled, relentless sexual ideas and hooked on viewing little one pornography.”
Mr Kavediya expressed his gratitude in direction of the court docket for conducting a speedy trial.
The case got here to trial round October 2022, and 29 witnesses had been examined in simply 8 months after the chargesheet was filed.
Reacting to the court docket order, Protection Lawyer Advocate Yashpal Purohit stated, “I welcome the judgment given by the honorable court docket, however the protection shall be transferring to a better court docket to hunt the authorized treatments out there to the accused.”
The Periods Courtroom, in its order, said that, “The current crime appears to be some of the heinous, brutal, and barbaric acts by a sexually obsessed and hardened merciless particular person.”
The trial was performed by Extra Periods Courtroom Choose BP Kshirsagar of Pune Periods Courtroom.
The incident occurred in August 2022. The case was registered at Kamshet Police Station below Pune Rural Police, and the conviction got here in roughly one 12 months and 7 months.
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