A man was awarded a death sentence in a rape and death case of a minor girl in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district. A special POCSO court pronounced the sentence.
Rarest of rare category
According to PTI, the court noted that the victim’s age was similar to the daughter of the accused, the judge observed it in the rarest of rare category.
The special POCSO court sentenced convict Haripada Roy to death for the heinous crime.
Victim’s family to get Rs 5 lakh as compensation
The court also directed the district legal services authority to pay Rs 5 lakh as compensation to the victim’s family.
The prosecution lawyer said that the 11-year-old girl was abducted from in front of her house. The girl was raped and murdered on September 29, 2023.
The lawyer said on the day of the incident, the girl’s father and uncle had gone along with other villagers to attend the formation of the Panchayat board.
Girl’s uncle lodged police complaint
When they returned, the girl’s mother informed them that the girl had been missing since 2 pm. Later, the girl’s uncle lodged a complaint at Dhupguri police station in Jalpaiguri district.
A few days later, the girl’s body was recovered from a sack near a river. The lawyer said the postmortem report confirmed that she was raped and strangulated to death.
SC grants bail to Uttarakhand man accused of religious conversion
In a separate case, the Supreme Court recently granted bail to a Uttarakhand-based man who was booked for religious conversion and cheating for marrying a woman who belonged to a different faith.
A bench of Justices B V Navarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma granted the man relief by observing that the state government of Uttarakhand cannot object to the marriage when the same has taken place as per the wishes of the couple’s parents.
“We observe that the respondent-State cannot have any objection to the appellant and his wife residing together inasmuch as they have been married as per the wishes of their respective parents and families. Thus, the top court found that this was an appropriate case where bail should be granted to the man.”
