Rejecting the appeal of a man sentenced to death for raping and murdering a 10 year old girl in the Sahaspur area of Dehradun, the High Court has upheld the death sentence awarded by the lower court in the case.
The appeal was rejected by the division bench of justices Alok Singh and Ravindra Maithani. On July 28, 2018, the girl’s father had lodged a complaint with the Sahaspur police stating that he was working as a labourer along with Jai Prakash in an under construction college.
On that day when the girl’s father had gone to work and Prakash had stayed home, the accused had called the man’s three daughters home and given two of them Rs 10 to buy some eatables. He had then raped and killed the eldest daughter.
He had then buried the girl’s body in a hole in the room and covered it with cement bags. Subsequently, hearing the case, the POCSO court in Dehradun had sentenced him to death.
On August 29 last year, this order was sent for reference to the high court. Meanwhile, Prakash had also filed an appeal against the POCSO court order in the high court. The high court found the POCSO court order to be correct and rejecting the convict’s appeal, upheld the death sentence awarded to him.
