Surat court awards death sentence to man for raping and murdering 3 and a half year old neighbour girl

Surat: A local court here today awarded capital punishment (death sentence) to a man from Bihar who had raped and murdered his 3 and a half year old neighbour girl in October last year.

The court of Additional Session Judge P S Kala held the accused Anil Yadav (24) – a native of Buxar district in Bihar settled in Surat, guilty under various sections of the IPC and Pocso Act including 302 (murder), 376AB (section included after amendment and which provides for capital punishment for rape of girls below 12 years of age), 377 (unnatural act of sex), 366 (Kidnapping a woman/girl) and 201 ( causing disappearance of evidence of offence) and awarded capital punishment.

According to government advocate Nayan Sukhadwala the accused had on October 14, caught the 3 year seven months old innocent girl when she was passing from near his residence in Ghodadara area under Limabayat police station of the city and taken her in to his house. He had repeatedly raped her and then killed her. He put her body in a gunny sack and fled to his native place from where he was nabbed after four days and brought back to Surat.

The charges were framed in the last week of January after which the trial began.

The body of the girl was found on October 15 from the house of Yadav packed in a sack. Medical examination confirmed the rape.

DeshGujarat