By Express News Service
KOCHI: The Ernakulam additional district sessions court (atrocities against women and children) on Tuesday sentenced Bihar native Ashafaq Alam (28), the lone accused in the abduction, rape, and murder of a five-year-old girl in Aluva, to capital punishment.
Accepting the prosecution’s argument that the case was among the rarest of the rare, Judge K Soman, who presided over the trial, upheld the 13 charges levelled by the prosecution including murder, kidnapping, torture, indignity to a human corpse, destroying evidence, and three POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) charges.
On 110 days after the crime, on Children’s Day, the final verdict of the case was pronounced, which by itself is an achievement as far as the Kerala police are concerned, said ADGP M R Ajithkumar.
The death sentence was pronounced for the offence of murder under IPC 302. Apart from the death sentence, the court also awarded life imprisonment specifically mentioning ’till reminder of his natural life’ under IPC section 376 (2) (j), 377, and POCSO Act section 5(l) and 5 (m).
It was on July 28, Alam abducted the child living at Choornikara in Ernakulam and took her to a garbage-littered place behind Aluva market, where she was raped and murdered. Even though the police managed to arrest the accused on the same day, he initially tried to mislead them. The body of the victim was recovered on July 29 after the accused confessed to the crime.
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KOCHI: The Ernakulam additional district sessions court (atrocities against women and children) on Tuesday sentenced Bihar native Ashafaq Alam (28), the lone accused in the abduction, rape, and murder of a five-year-old girl in Aluva, to capital punishment.
Accepting the prosecution’s argument that the case was among the rarest of the rare, Judge K Soman, who presided over the trial, upheld the 13 charges levelled by the prosecution including murder, kidnapping, torture, indignity to a human corpse, destroying evidence, and three POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) charges.
On 110 days after the crime, on Children’s Day, the final verdict of the case was pronounced, which by itself is an achievement as far as the Kerala police are concerned, said ADGP M R Ajithkumar.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); });
The death sentence was pronounced for the offence of murder under IPC 302. Apart from the death sentence, the court also awarded life imprisonment specifically mentioning ’till reminder of his natural life’ under IPC section 376 (2) (j), 377, and POCSO Act section 5(l) and 5 (m).
It was on July 28, Alam abducted the child living at Choornikara in Ernakulam and took her to a garbage-littered place behind Aluva market, where she was raped and murdered. Even though the police managed to arrest the accused on the same day, he initially tried to mislead them. The body of the victim was recovered on July 29 after the accused confessed to the crime.
READ MORE | Rape and murder of five-year-old girl in Aluva: How sessions court in Kerala busted Alam’s claim Follow channel on WhatsApp
