Haryana man gets death penalty for rape-murder of 6-yr-old Mansa girl

THE CONVICT, A DISTANT RELATIVE OF THE GIRL, HAD COME TO MANSA TO ATTEND A WEDDING

MANSA: A local court here on Wednesday awarded death sentence to a man in connection with the rape and murder of his six-year-old distant relative in 2016, describing the case as “rarest of rare”.

The court of additional sessions judge Jaspal Verma held Kala Singh alias Kala Ram, 39, of Rupanwali village in Haryana’s Fatehabab district guilty of abduction, rape and murder of the girl.

Ram had come to Amapur Mandira village in Mansa district to attend a marriage function on May 11, 2016. The same evening he kidnapped the girl from the marriage venue and then took her to a nearby canal, where he raped her and then strangulated her to death. Later, he threw body in Ladhuwas in Fatehabad.

Ram, a daily wager, was later arrested after some relatives told police that he was last seen with the victim. During interrogation, he confessed to his crime. He was booked under relevant sections of the IPC, including Section 364 (kidnapping), 376 A (punishment for rape and death), 302 (murder) and under provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

The judge observed in the order that the faith of the society by such a “barbaric act” of the convict gets totally shaken and its cry for justice becomes loud and clear.

”The offence was not only inhumane and barbaric but it was a totally ruthless crime of rape followed by cold-blooded murder. It is an act of taking advantage of absolute innocence. The sexually assaulted minor girl of six years could not have shown any kind of resistance. The rape of minor girl child is nothing but a monstrous burial of her dignity in the darkness,” the judge wrote in the order.

“It is held that it is one of the rarest of rare cases in which the convict must meet the gallows. Hence, he is sentenced to death under section 376 A of the IPC for committing rape and murder of the minor girl,” the order stated.