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SURAT: A 22-year-old man was sentenced to death on Monday by a special court for Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act cases in Vapi of Gujarat’s Valsad district for the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in February 2020.
The minor was found hanging at her home and the accused attempted to stage a scene of a suicide. However, a postmortem and police investigation revealed that the girl had been sexually assaulted, sodomised and then strangled. The court of special judge K J Modi convicted and sentenced Pradip Rajesh alias Rajendra alias Rameshwar Gupta, a labourer and native of Bihar, to be hanged till death for the rape and murder of the minor. The court also ordered that a compensation of Rs 17 lakh be paid to the family of the victim.
Gupta sexually assaulted the minor, a class IV student, when she was alone at her home in Vapi on February 7, 2020. She was found hanging from the ceiling fan with a dupatta in the afternoon that day.
Police suspected it to be a murder when they noticed injury marks on her neck. “It was later confirmed by doctors during postmortem that she was strangulated. Further medical examination revealed that she was sexually assaulted and subjected to unnatural sex as well,” said Anil Tripathi, district government pleader, Valsad. On the day of the crime, a neighbour went to meet the girl’s father at his workplace in the afternoon. The neighbour asked the father to accompany him and they returned home on a motorcycle. On reaching home, the father found her daughter hanging.
The minor was found hanging at her home and the accused attempted to stage a scene of a suicide. However, a postmortem and police investigation revealed that the girl had been sexually assaulted, sodomised and then strangled. The court of special judge K J Modi convicted and sentenced Pradip Rajesh alias Rajendra alias Rameshwar Gupta, a labourer and native of Bihar, to be hanged till death for the rape and murder of the minor. The court also ordered that a compensation of Rs 17 lakh be paid to the family of the victim.
Gupta sexually assaulted the minor, a class IV student, when she was alone at her home in Vapi on February 7, 2020. She was found hanging from the ceiling fan with a dupatta in the afternoon that day.
Police suspected it to be a murder when they noticed injury marks on her neck. “It was later confirmed by doctors during postmortem that she was strangulated. Further medical examination revealed that she was sexually assaulted and subjected to unnatural sex as well,” said Anil Tripathi, district government pleader, Valsad. On the day of the crime, a neighbour went to meet the girl’s father at his workplace in the afternoon. The neighbour asked the father to accompany him and they returned home on a motorcycle. On reaching home, the father found her daughter hanging.
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