Kolkata: A POCSO court in Kolkata on Tuesday sentenced a 34 -year -old man to rape a seven -month -old child and left his fight for life, “rare rare case ” Said.
“There can be no other punishment that the court can think of,” Judge Indraila Mukherjee Mitra said in her judgment Rajib GhoshAka Gobra, he was convicted a day later. Special Public Prosecutor Baswas Chatterjee described the order for Bengal’s judicial system as “historic”.
“This is because we have not yet seen the death sentence given in such cases. In this case, the girl survived,” said Chatterjee.
The prosecutor demanded death. “The defense counsel repeatedly argued if we could seek the death penalty since the girl survives. The law, however, does not suggest that the victim will have to die to sentence to death,” Chatterjee argued.
The punishment decreases by three months – within 80 days – of crime. The court also honored the compensation of Rs 10 lakh for the child, which is important to assess in the RG car hospital for more than two months that it will be left with permanent damage.
Ghosh raped her infant after kidnapping a pavement in Burtola area of Kolkata, where she was sleeping with her mother late on 30 November.