The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the execution of death penalty against a school teacher, who was convicted for raping a four-year-old girl in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh in June last year.
A Bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices L. Nageswara Rao and Sanjiv Khanna stayed the execution of the death sentence of convict Mahendra Singh Gond, which was scheduled for March 2 in a Jabalpur jail.
“There shall be stay of execution of the death sentence of the petitioner,” the Bench said.
According to the prosecution, the girl was so brutally assaulted that she had to spend months in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi to get her intestines realigned.
Dumped for dead
After raping her, the convict had dumped her in a jungle, thinking she was dead, and her family members had found her in the wee hours when she was barely alive, the prosecution had said.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court had, on January 25, confirmed the death sentence awarded to the convict by the trial court.