Life imprisonment to convict in Hazira minor kidnap, rape and murder case

Surat: Additional Sessions Judge and special judge for Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, PS Kala has ordered life time imprisonment to convict Sujit Saket IPC 376 (A)(B) in Hazira rape and murder case. Sujit is a migrant originally from Madhya Pradesh. The victim girl was just four years old. The incident of crime had happened about 8 months ago on April 30.

A 27-year-old migrant labourer was earlier convicted kidnapped and raped girl, then subjected her to unnatural sex and killed her by smashing a brick on her head. To ensure that she died, Saket then strangled the minor.

હજીરાના શ્રમજીવી પરિવારની પાંચ વર્ષની બાળકી પર ગત એપ્રિલ માસમાં થયેલ દુષ્કર્મ હત્યા કેસમાં દોષી સુજીત સાકેતને POCSO એક્ટ હેઠળ આજીવન કેદનો આદેશ આપવામાં આવ્યો.

આરોપીને કડકમાં કડક સજા આપવા અને પીડિત પરિવારને ઝડપી ન્યાય આપવા પ્રતિબદ્ધ છે ગુજરાત પોલીસ.
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Accused Sujit when the verdict was being read hurled his both shoes targeting the Judge. He was soon overpowered by Police. None of his shoes reached Judge as there was a shield in the middle. According to an eye-witness lawyer, the convict was very angry and shouted that he was innocent and CID should be roped in for inquiry. He also shouted, he even didn’t know the victim girl.

The court examined 26 witnesses and 53 documentary pieces of evidence. Body of the minor, daughter of a migrant worker, was found in the bushes around 150 metres from her home. She was playing near her home in the morning and at around 10 am when her mother, who had gone for a bath, realized that she was missing. She searched for her and on failing to locate her she informed her husband who was at work. The family is from Madhya Pradesh and her father worked at an industry in Hazira.