Odisha POCSO court awards death penalty to two in rape-murder case. The convicts, Asif (34) and Akil (33), had committed the crime on 21 August in 2014 at a village under Tirtol police station of the coastal district of Jagatsinghpur.
A special court in Jagatsinghpur, on Tuesday, ordered death sentence to two persons after convicting the duo for raping and killing of an 8-year-old girl a couple of years back.
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The convicts, Asif (34) and Akil (33), had committed the crime on 21 August in 2014 at a village under Tirtol police station of the coastal district of Jagatsinghpur.
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The culprits had kidnapped the victim as she was way on her way back home after purchasing chocolates from a shop. When she tried to raise alarm, they gagged and gangraped her in an abandoned house near the village and killed her to destroy the evidence.
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The POCSO court judge Ajay Kumar Mohanty convicted the duo after confirming the reports of 27 witnesses apart from police and doctors.
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As it came under the ‘rarest of rare’ category of crimes, the court awarded capital punishment of the convicts, said Dolagobinda Dash, the special public prosecutor of the court.
Source:The Statesman
