2013-01-17 18:19:46

India’s Fast track court awards death for rape


January 17, 2013: A fast track court in India’s New Delhi gave death sentence to a farmhouse guard for raping and killing a 3-year-old girl in 2011. The judgment comes ten days after fast track courts were set up in the national capital to try cases of sexual offences against women following the gang-rape of a paramedical student in a moving bus leading to a public outcry.

Terming the crime as "most diabolic and gruesome", additional sessions judge Virender Bhat handed over the sentence to Bharat Singh. Bhat said that the case fell in the "rarest of rare" category. The victim had died while she was being raped and her internal organs had come out, the court said.

"There is a steep rise in crimes against women, particularly minor girls. Time has come when the courts have to take a stern view of such crimes and inflict harsher punishment possible upon the perpetrators... so that a stern message is sent to society," the court added.

The incident happened on April 10, 2011 when the girl was returning to her house in Kapashera in southwest Delhi when she strayed towards the farmhouse. The girl was called inside by Singh, who was alone on duty, and was raped by him, the prosecution had said.

The court noted that the girl was subjected to his "lust" in such a "ghastly" manner that she died during the crime. The convict was so merciless that after the girl died he threw her body in some bushes inside the farmhouse.








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