Nagpur: Man sentences to death under IPC, POCSO Act provisions for raping, killing girl

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A Nagpur court on Monday sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering a 5-year-old girl in 2019, reported PTI.

Sanjay Puri (32) was sentenced to death by District Judge and Additional Sessions Judge S R Padwal under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, Section 376(A)(B) of IPC and Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, said Special Public Prosecutor Prashant Kumar Sathianathan.

The body of the girl was found on December 6, 2019 from a farm plot in Linga village in Kalmeshwar tehsil where she resided with her labourer parents. As per the PTI report, the victim had suffered severe head injuries and a piece of cloth and rod were stuffed into her mouth, while a blood-stained boulder lay nearby.

The police probe revealed she was raped and bludgeoned to death, after which Puri, who worked on the farm as a watchman, was arrested, the SPP said.

A total of 26 witnesses were examined in the case, he said.

The court sentenced Puri to life imprisonment under section 376(2) of the IPC and under section 4 of the POCSO Act, as well as seven years in jail under section 10 of POCSO Act, Sathianathan said.

All the sentences will run concurrently, the SPP informed.

Three arrested, minors detained for gangrape of 20-year-old woman in Chhattisgarh

In the Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh, a senior police officer reported that three people were arrested and numerous young boys were detained on Tuesday for allegedly engaging in gang rape with a woman who was twenty years old.

He went on, "The boyfriend of the survivor was one of the accused." According to Jashpur Superintendent of Police Shashi Mohan Singh, three people from Saraiyoli village - Rasel Kujur (24), Ritesh Kujur (20), and Nishul Tirkey (above 18) - were taken into custody.

He said that three adolescents, ages sixteen to seventeen, had been placed in a juvenile observation home. The complainant claims that on May 26, when she went to her boyfriend's home in Lorodofa village, they had consensual sex.

He requested her to meet him at a reservoir in a different village the following day. She claimed that when he purposefully got into an argument with her and departed his friends, who had already shown up, raped her.

The suspects were arrested under Indian Penal Code sections 376 (rape), 376 (D) (gangrape), and 120 (B) (conspiracy) when she went to the police. Investigations continue.