Father from Odisha who raped and killed adolescent daughter gets death sentence from spl court in Gujarat

Surat: A special court here today awarded capital punishment (death-sentence) to a man who had raped and killed his own adolescent daughter more than two years ago.

The special court of additional district and session judge P S Kala held Tukna Das, a native of Odisha who lived in Pandesra area in Surat city of Gujarat, guilty of a ‘rarest of the rare’ crime of raping and making pregnant his own 14 year old daughter Lisa and later strangulating her to death. He body was recovered from a secluded place near Dumas road here on June 30, 2017.

According to prosecution Tukna Das had repeatedly raped his daughter Lisa while he was living with his second wife ie her step mother who was not aware of it. When she became pregnant, Tukna hatched conspiracy to kill her in cold blooded manner.

The court awarded death sentence to him. The DNA test had confirmed that the girl was made pregnant by him.

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