A Kolkata court docket on Thursday sentenced a person to loss of life for the rape and homicide of a seven-year-old woman in 2023, holding that it was a case of the rarest of uncommon nature.
The woman had gone lacking from close to her home at Tiljala in south-east Kolkata on March 26 final yr when she went out on some chores.
The police launched an investigation after a lacking diary was lodged and located her physique in a close-by flat.
The tenant of the flat was arrested and charged with rape and homicide of the woman after autopsy examination experiences confirmed the crimes.
The physique bore blunt weapon accidents and strangulation marks post-rape, in accordance with the post-mortem report.
Particular Choose (POCSO) at Alipore court docket, Sudipto Bhattacharya, discovering the accused responsible of rape and homicide, sentenced him to loss of life, holding that it was a case of the rarest of uncommon nature.
He noticed that the woman, who was of the tender age of seven, had no chance of defending herself and was subjected to the heinous crime.
The trial was accomplished inside a yr after framing of expenses in opposition to the accused earlier than the court docket, public prosecutor Madhavi Ghosh stated.
The court docket additionally ordered that Rs 10 lakh be paid by the West Bengal authorities to the woman’s mom below the sufferer compensation scheme of the state.
