Round 16 months after the horrific rape and homicide of an eight-year-old lady shocked the town, a particular POCSO court docket has convicted an Uttar Pradesh native, a painter by career, for the grotesque crime.
The Chandigarh court docket will pronounce the quantum of sentence on Tuesday. (Getty Photographs/Purestock)
The court docket of further classes choose Yashika convicted 40-year-old Hira Lal, presently a resident of Hallomajra, beneath numerous sections of the Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
The quantum of sentence can be pronounced on Tuesday. Court docket sources mentioned the prosecution will plead for a stringent punishment for the accused.
The kid’s physique, with the throat slit and a number of stab wounds, was found close to a dumping website in Ram Darbar on January 22, 2024, three days after she went lacking on January 19.
The post-mortem had confirmed rape. The physique was present in a semi-naked state and hidden beneath a pile of rubbish, round 600 metres from her home in Hallomajra.
Through the trial, the prosecution acknowledged that the lady was kidnapped from close to her residence by the accused, who then took her to his lodging and dedicated the crime.
After the physique was discovered, police recognized the accused with the assistance of CCTV footage which confirmed him carrying a purse. His home was raided and located locked. His rented room had been locked since January 19, the identical day the kid went lacking.
Police broke the locks and located the slippers of the sufferer in the home that confirmed that the kid was introduced there.
A chase spanning three states, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, ensued and eventually, on the seventh day, police managed to hint him to Nawada, Arrah, in Bihar.
The accused was subsequently discovered to have two wives and 5 youngsters, the eldest being a 13-year-old daughter. In response to police, he was dishonest on each his wives, as none of them knew about one another.