Man In Rajasthan Gets Death Sentence For Raping A 5-Year-Old Girl, Judgement Within A Month

March 18, 2021

A special POCSO court sentenced a man to death for raping a 5-year-old girl in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan as per a PTI report. It also hailed the police for their swift action.  

Police said 21-year old Sunil Kumar kidnapped the girl on February 19.

The other kids playing with her told her parents who called the cops, according to Chirawa CO Suresh Sharma . 

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Every station was on the alert and she was soon found injured. Five hours later, Kumar was in custody. 

The court convicted Kumar under the POCSO Act on March 16. His sentence was pronounced a day later. 

“Swift action was taken in the case and all the evidence was collected. The charge sheet was filed within 10 days of the incident and the court pronounced the judgment today,” said Sharma. 

The court appreciated the police investigation conducted by the police. 

It observed that the evidence collected was enough to crack the case.

Such crimes deserve the maximum punishment and one hopes the sentence is carried out soon. 

The police acted quickly and in this case the one responsible was nabbed. But that is not always what happens.

Death Penalty for rape in Madhya Pradesh

November 27,  2017

The Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Bhopal on Sunday, also passed a resolution that awards the death sentence to gang rape convicts.

The moves comes in the wake of rape incidents recently. “The Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan okayed the recommendation to hand down capital punishment for rape of girls aged 12 years or below,” MP Finance Minister Jayant Malaiya said.

“We are going to present a bill to this effect in the winter session of the assembly beginning tomorrow,” he said. He said the Cabinet also decided to give harsher punishment to those guilty of molesting, stalking and harassing women. Now, a fine of Rs 1 lakh will also be imposed on such offenders, he added.

Once cleared by the assembly, the bill for capital punishment for rape of girls aged 12 or below will be sent to the Centre which will send it to the President for his approval.

Nigerian rapist to be stoned to death in Kano

April 24, 2014

An Islamic court in northern Nigeria has sentenced a man of 63 to death by stoning for raping a girl of 10 and infecting her with HIV.

Ubale Sa’idu Dotsa admitted raping the girl but said he had incited by the Devil, reports the AP news agency.

His two wives have reportedly died from Aids-related diseases.

Several people have been sentenced to death by stoning in northern Nigeria’s Islamic courts but none have been carried out.

Kano state’s commissioner of justice Maliki Kuliya told the BBC Hausa service that Mr Dotsa has the right to appeal up to the federal Supreme Court, which could take years.

(Source: BBC News)

 

High Court Upholds Death Penalty in Delhi Gang Rape Case

March 13, 2014

NEW DELHI — The Delhi High Court on Thursday upheld the death sentences of four men who were convicted of gang-raping and murdering a 23-year-old student in the capital in December 2012.

In September, a lower court sentenced the men to death by hanging after determining that the case fell into the “rarest of the rare” category, which the Supreme Court has said is the only one that can merit capital punishment. The men were charged with murder after the woman died from severe injuries sustained when she was repeatedly assaulted with an iron rod.

In their order upholding the men’s convictions and death sentences, the two judges from the Delhi High Court called attention to the “gruesome manner of the execution of the crime” and said that such a case was “unparalleled in the history of criminal jurisprudence.”

For months after the gang rape and the woman’s subsequent death, protests were held across India to demand justice for the victim and greater safety for women. The public anger helped push the trial into a special fast-track court and pressured Parliament to strengthen sexual assault laws in March 2013.

“A strong message needs to be sent to the perpetrators of grotesque and ghastly crimes against women,” the Delhi High Court said.

The father of the rape victim said in a televised interview outside the courthouse that he was very happy with the court’s decision on Thursday.

He also expressed hope that it would serve as a deterrent. “Not just them, but other people who commit such crimes should be given a death sentence,” he said. “If that happens, such cases will surely decline.”

A. P. Singh, a lawyer for two of the convicted men, said in a telephone interview that the decision to uphold the death penalty was politically motivated. “When the lower court passed the judgment, the Delhi Assembly elections had just been declared,” he said. “And now, they have passed this judgment as the national elections are around the corner.”

A fifth defendant, Ram Singh, was found dead in a Delhi prison in March last year. A sixth defendant was a juvenile at the time of the gang rape and was sentenced by a Juvenile Justice Board to the maximum jail term of three years. The family of the victim is also demanding the death penalty for that sixth person, who is now an adult.

The defense lawyer did not contest the court’s upholding of the guilty verdict but contended that because the men were not habitual offenders, the courts should show compassion and try to rehabilitate them.

“We will definitely challenge the verdict in the Supreme Court,” A. P. Singh said.

(nytimes)

Abu Dhabi prosecutor wants death for ‘rapist’

february 10, 2014

A man from another Gulf country could be executed for raping five boys in Abu Dhabi after seducing them to come with him to the top of buildings where they lived, claiming he wanted to show them the birds, the press reported on Monday.

The unnamed man, 39, first denied he was giving money to the boys and taking them to the building rooftops, but medical reports showed the children were raped.

Parents had reported the man to the police and all the victims identified their rapist at the police station, Emarat Al Youm Arabic language daily said.

“He used to stop a child and ask him about his name and age.

“He then gave him money and asked him to come to the top of the building to watch his birds.”

During trial, the prosecutor demanded the maximum punishment against the defendant on the grounds all his victims were children. He said the penalty should be in line with Law 354 specifying the death punishment in such cases. (Source: Emirates 24/7)

Brunei’s Shariah-based Penal Code set to take effect, gays risk stoning, execution

In what the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) are calling ‘a step backward’ for human rights, the Sultan of Brunei has announced that a series of laws that were formulated in 2013 are set to be enacted in April, 2014.

The laws, which criminalize everything from adultery to same-sex relations, include punishments ranging from public stonings to execution.

“In an open letter to Prime Minister, H.M. Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, the ICJ also stressed that the Syariah Penal Code Order 2013 is clearly incompatible with international human rights law and standards that prohibit discrimination against women and protect the rights to religious freedom and freedom of opinion and expression.

The law also criminalizes adultery, extramarital sexual relations and consensual same-sex conduct, in contravention of international standards,” reports the ICJ.

Brunei, which is located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia, is a sovereign nation. And while Islamic, Brunei is considered far more religious than Malaysia and Indonesia, 2 neighboring countries that share many of the same religious and moral codes.

The 2013 Penal Code will re-introduce the death penalty after years of an effective moratorium in the country, and provide for stoning and other forms of torture and ill treatment for a range of ‘misconduct.’ The 2013 Penal Code provides for the death penalty as a possible penalty – for both Muslims and non-Muslims – for the crimes of robbery (Article 63), rape (Article 76), adultery and sodomy (Article 82). It also is prescribed as a penalty – for Muslims only – upon conviction for acts constituting extramarital sexual relations (Article 69),” reports the ICJ.

The NGO hopes to influence the enactment of the laws by stressing its violation of human rights norms that have not only been established but with which Brunei has agreed to abide by as a member of ASEAN, the Association of Southeastern Asian Nations.”The death penalty, in any circumstance, is a form of torture and inhumane treatment, and its reintroduction in the 2013 Penal Code is out of step with the global trend towards the abolition of the death penalty and the establishment of a moratorium on execution.”

(source: LGBT Weekly)

UAE: Janitor rapist gets death penalty

50-year-old who raped seven-year-old girl on school premises sentenced to death

Abu Dhabi: A man who was found guilty of raping a seven-year-old Emirati pupil on her school premises has been sentenced to death, the Criminal Court of First Instance ruled in the capital on Monday.

According to court documents, after returning home from school one day earlier this year, the victim displayed signs of sexual abuse.

“Her aunt who is accustomed to giving her a bath after school, asked her to remove her trousers. Upon refusing to do so, and after her aunt’s insistence, traces of blood and semen were found in the girl’s underpants,” Hussain Al Jaziri, the plaintiff’s lawyer said during the trial’s closing arguments.

The victim had been sent to the administration office to deliver some papers by her class teacher, who was believed to have left the country days before the defendant was arrested.

Seeing her walk by, the accused, in his 50s, who was also a former janitor at the girl’s private school, reportedly took her into the school’s kitchen where he continued to molest her. He then threatened to kill her and her mother if she told anyone about the incident.

Lawyers had cited the girl’s unsupervised presence in the school to be the direct reason for the aggressor’s actions.
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The defence team had argued that a DNA and blood test were not conducted to link the suspect to the crime. However, the accused had confessed to his crimes claiming that he possessed feelings of affection towards the victim, according to court documents.

“Hopefully this verdict will provide the victim’s family with closure and security knowing that justice was served. I also urge parents and child caretakers everywhere to promptly report any act of aggression or abuse taken against their children as refraining from reporting these incidents only protects the offender,” Al Jaziri told Gulf News. The verdict is subject to appeal.

(Gulf News)

India shamed: Chances of a woman being raped doubled in past 20 years

October 15, 2012 http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/

New Delhi – From castration to death sentence, India has debated several measures to check rapists but did little to prevent the crime; the fastest growing among all violent offences in one of the largest democracies in the world, local media reported on Wednesday.

The chances of an Indian woman being raped had almost doubled over the past two decades whereas the probability of conviction had declined by a third, according to data from the Indian National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

The message was clear: India was a dangerous place for women. From the khap-dominated Haryana to the progressive Bengal, rape was a grim reality in India with triggers as diverse as the socio-economic and cultural fabric of the country.

Every 20 minutes, a woman was raped in India. Every third victim of rape was a child, according to 2011 figures from the NCRB. The accused was convicted in only one of every four cases where trial was stretched over several years.

Even worse, deferment of rape cases in trial courts had increased from 78% to 83% over the past two decades. Madhya Pradesh topped the list among the states with the highest number of reported rape cases last year.

Haryana reported at least a dozen rapes in the past month – a spurt that prompted Congress President Sonia Gandhi to rush to Jind where a Dalit girl burnt herself to death after being gang-raped.

The NCRB numbers captured only those cases that were reported to police but officials agreed that many rapes went unreported due to social stigma.
“It is quite possible that the police, in some places, discourage victims from pressing charges,” said a senior police officer who did not want to be named. 

That, however, might be an understatement. It took the police days to register a case when another victim of rape in Haryana’s Jind district complained last month. She had been gang-raped and an MMS of the crime was in circulation.

“The space for corruption for police is immense. Parents are pressured by the rapists’ family to settle. The police also make them feel nothing will come out of it,” said Jagmati Sangwan, director, women’s studies, MDU University, Rohtak. Investigators did not do a good job of collecting and preserving the evidence, she added.

 

JAMAICA – STOP SEX ABUSE! Protestors want death penalty for rape

September 29, 2012 http://www.jamaicaobserver.com

SCORES of Jamaicans, angered by the Monday’s gruesome attack and rape of five females, including an eight-year-old child, yesterday protested across the island and called for the death penalty for criminals who rape and abuse children.

“How can a man rape a woman much less a child; this has to stop, and the Government need to re-introduce the death penalty,” said Velma Peart, a black-clad, placard-bearing protestor who was among a group of approximately 100 people who marched from Half-Way-Tree to Cross Roads in Kingston, the Jamaican capital.

“The time has come; we have to take back our society [as] this cannot be allowed to continue; the Government needs to send a strong message to these criminals,” said Lillian Vassel, another woman in the group.

The women, who identified themselves as mothers, had the support of Betty Ann Blaine, child rights advocate and founder of the New Nation Coalition.

“I am calling for the death penalty for people who rape children because that little eight-year-old girl will probably never recover. It is tantamount to murder,” said Blaine. “…The laws must be enforced to give them (rapists) the strongest punishment,” Blaine told the Jamaica Observer.

Men who were among the protestors also condemned the vicious rape of the five on Monday and called for a stop to the sexual abuse of women and children.

“We need justice [as] this cannot continue; we need help for our children, it has to stop,” said Kamal Campbell, as he marched with the protestors.

Yesterday, several motorists showed support for the action of the mainly black-clad protestors as they marched along Half-Way-Tree Road by honking their horns.

In downtown Kingston, Youth and Culture Minister Lisa Hanna, officials of the Child Development Agency (CDA) and the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation joined protestors in that section of the city who pleaded for an end to abuse against women and children.

“… We are encouraged by the turnout,” said Audrey Budhi, director of policy, planning and evaluation at the CDA.

As protestors called for the resumption of the death penalty, Minister Hanna said strenghtening of the laws dealing with sexual abuse was a nationwide effort. “The laws are there, it is really the country that needs to give support; they need to stop hiding these persons, we need to believe our children, and when we see it happening we need to put an end to it,” she said.

Hanna said, too, that there was a need for improvement in the justice system to ensure that perpetrators of sexual violence were not allowed to walk free.

She added that consideration needs to be given so that children who are victims of sexual violence may be allowed to give evidence by video. “Sometimes when these children sit on a court stand they fall apart when they have to recount the information. Some of them block it out completely and are not able to testify and [so] a number of the perpetrators walk free,” said Hanna.

Sandrea Falconer, minister without portfolio responsible for information, also said the focus should be on strengthening current laws that deal with sexual abuse.

Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange, the Opposition spokesperson on youth and gender affairs, meanwhile, said the time has come for Jamaicans to come forward and to do what is necessary to “clamp down on this problem once and for all”.

General Secretary of the Jamaica Council of Churches Rev Gary Harriott, who also joined protestors yesterday, called for Jamaicans to take a stand against violence.

Bombay HC confirms death penalty to accused of Pune BPO murder case

September 17, 2012 http://www.indlawnews.com

The Bombay High Court today confirmed the death penalty awarded to two persons accused of rape and murder of a 22-year-old BPO employee in Pune city on November 1, 2007. 

A division bench of Justices V M Kanade and P D Kode, while upholding the trial court’s order, which had awarded the death sentence to Purushottam Borate and Pradeep Kokade for kidnapping, raping and murdering the victim, an employee with Wipro BPO, in its order observed that it has had a deep impact on the society and women travelling alone.

‘We are confirming the death sentence awarded to the duo by the sessions court. The manner in which the offence was committed and the deep impact it has had on the society have been considered by us. Any woman will now think twice before taking a cab alone,’ Justice Kanade said.

After the bench pronounced its verdict, the two accused broke down in the court room.

According to the prosecution, the victim had boarded the regular cab contracted to ply employees by the company to report for night shift. Cab driver Borate, who was accompanied by his friend Kokade, however, changed the route and took the victim to a remote place where she was raped by the duo and later murdered. UNI