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Life term for rape, murder of 3-year-old child
Special Correspondent
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High Court reverses trial court order
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Child was abducted while playing on the street The body was dumped the body in a pond
CHENNAI: Reversing an order of a trial court, the Madras High Court has awarded life imprisonment to a person who abducted a three-year-old child and raped and murdered her.
The trial court had acquitted the accused.
In its judgment on an appeal preferred by the Korattur police (on the city’s outskirts), a Division Bench, comprising Justices M. Chockalingam and V. Periya Karuppiah, said the accused had committed the barbarous and heinous act and dumped the body in a pond.
According to prosecution, K. Rajendran took away the child on April 20 last year while she was playing on the street.
Following a complaint from the parents, a case of ‘girl missing’ case was registered the next day.
It was later changed for offences under section 302 (punishment for murder) and 377 (unnatural offences) and Rajendran arrested.
By an order in December last year, Additional District and Sessions Judge, FTC-1, Poonamallee, acquitted the accused on the ground that the prosecution had failed to prove the case beyond reasonable doubt.
The Bench said all the evidence that was placed before the trial court would point that it was the accused and none else who had abducted, raped and killed the child. The trial court had not considered any one of the factual positions or the evidence adduced. It gave the judgment erroneously.
The Bench said it was convicting Rajendran under section 377 and 302 of the IPC and sentencing him to undergo life imprisonment for each offence.
The sentences would run concurrently, it added.
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