Bhopal: A 42-year-old man was given death sentence by a special court for raping and killing his six-year-old daughter in Madhya Pradesh. The accused suspected his wife’s character and believed the victim was not his biological child, the prosecution said.
The prosecution official stated that he engaged in unnatural sex with the girl and also raped her. He later hanged her with the help of a stole on the night of March 15, 2017.
Special judge for the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) Kumudini Patel while terming the incident rarest of the rare, awarded death sentence to the accused.
The officials stated that the post-mortem report confirmed rape, unnatural sex and strangulation. The victim’s DNA report matched with the accused after which the 42-year-old was arrested.
The Director-General, prosecution, Rajendra Kumar, said that the court gave the capital punishment to the accused under section 302 of the IPC and life imprisonment under section 376 after the prosecution proved the case on the basis of scientific evidences.
He stated that “Though main witnesses turned hostile, scientific evidence of post-mortem and DNA had helped us in proving our case. With this, the total number of death sentences awarded so far in such matters (where victims were minors) has risen to 21 this year.”