Bhopal: On Wednesday, a district court in Madhya Pradesh sentenced a man to death for raping and killing his minor niece in 2021.
Suresh Kumar Choube, the Additional District Judge (ADJ) of Sohagpur Court in Narmadapuram district, found the accused guilty of rape and murder and sentenced him to death.
Before delivering the verdict, ADJ Choube quoted a quatrain from the Ramcharitamanas, saying, “Raping an innocent little girl is a horrific crime. And killing a minor after raping her cannot be considered a normal situation.
The Sohagpur police inquiry, DNA reports, and testimony from the victim’s elder brother, who is also a minor, prompted the court to decide the destiny of the accused, the victim’s maternal uncle.
The terrible crime occurred on December 25, 2021. After receiving a missing complaint, the Sohagpur police conducted a search and discovered the victim’s body on the roof of her house.
After perpetrating the crime, the accused misled the victim’s family and the police by claiming that he, too, was looking for the ‘ missing’ girl.
The autopsy report found that the victim had been sexually molested before being suffocated to death.
The police arrested the culprit based on bite marks on the victim’s body. The case had sparked considerable outrage among Sohagpur locals, who mounted a major protest, blocking highways and roads and laying siege to the offices of the district collector and the superintendent of police, demanding the death penalty for the perpetrator.
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