A SPECIAL court docket in South 24 Parganas district on Friday sentenced a 19-year-old man to demise for raping and murdering a 10-year-old woman — in 62 days after the crime. The woman’s physique was present in a pond on October 5. The accused was arrested hours later the identical day. The woman had gone lacking when she was returning residence from a tuition class on October 4.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee hailed the decision, calling it “unprecedented within the state’s historical past.”
On Thursday, the POCSO court docket of Further District Decide Subrata Chattopadhyay convicted the accused – Mustakin Sardar – underneath Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections 65 (rape), 66 (punishment for inflicting demise or leading to a persistent vegetative state of the sufferer), and 103 (homicide), apart from the Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offences Act. The court docket additionally directed {that a} compensation of Rs 10 lakh be offered to the sufferer’s household.
The court docket on Friday handed down the demise penalty to the convict, describing the case as “rarest of uncommon”.
The police filed the chargesheet on October 30 and the trial, which started on November 5, was accomplished in simply 21 days. The incident, which occurred amid the protests over the rape and homicide of the physician on the R G Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital, led to violent protests within the space. Automobiles had been torched, a police outpost was ransacked and roads had been blocked by the protesters.
Particular Public Prosecutor Bivas Chatterjee, who fought the case, mentioned the decision “might set a precedent in annals of the nation’s legal jurisprudence given the swiftness with which investigation and trial had been held.”
“In a sharply polarised ambiance over the RG Kar rape and homicide case the place calls for for justice stay a speaking level, this verdict would show that not every little thing is unsuitable in Bengal’s police and justice system…,” mentioned Chatterjee.
– With PTI inputs
