The man had kidnapped the lady after providing her chocolate
A yr and a half after a 7-year-old lady was raped and murdered and her physique was discovered inside a sack, a court docket in Kolkata has sentenced her neighbour to demise, holding that the crime falls below the class of “rarest of uncommon” instances.
Pronouncing the sentence on Thursday, the particular Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences (POCSO) court docket quoted Scottish thinker and economist Adam Smith and mentioned, “Mercy to the responsible is cruelty to the harmless”
The lady went lacking from her home in Kolkata’s Tiljala space on the morning of March 26, 2023. Based on the household’s grievance, the Kolkata Police launched an intensive search and, later that night, her physique was present in a sack contained in the kitchen of one among her neighbours’ flats.
The neighbour was recognized as Alok Kumar Shaw and investigation revealed that he had kidnapped the lady after providing her chocolate. He then sexually assaulted her earlier than brutally killing her.
The incident led to anger within the space and protesters torched a number of automobiles and likewise vandalised a police station.
The Kolkata Police’s Homicide Section investigated the case and submitted a chargesheet on June 16, 2023. The prices have been framed earlier than the particular POCSO court docket on July 24.
The court docket convicted Shaw on Wednesday for the kidnapping, rape and homicide of the lady. Pronouncing the decision of capital punishment on Thursday, it mentioned the best way wherein the 7-year-old lady was sexually assaulted and killed places the crime within the class of “rarest of uncommon instances”.