Nagpur: Man sentences to death under IPC, POCSO Act provisions for raping 5yo

A Nagpur court on Monday sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering a 5yearold girl in 2019 reported PTISanjay 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 376AB of IPC and Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences POCSO Act said Special Public Prosecutor Prashant Kumar SathianathanThe 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 bloodstained boulder lay nearbyThe 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 saidA total of 26 witnesses were examined in the case he saidThe court sentenced Puri to life imprisonment under section 3762 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 saidAll the sentences will run concurrently the SPP informedThree arrested minors detained for gangrape of 20yearold woman in ChhattisgarhIn 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 oldHe 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 villagemdashRasel Kujur 24 Ritesh Kujur 20 and Nishul Tirkey above 18mdashwere taken into custodyHe 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 boyfriends home in Lorodofa village they had consensual sexHe 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 herThe 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