JAIPUR: A trial court in Kota awarded capital punishment to a 50-year-old man on Friday for the murder of a 40-year-old woman in Vigyan Nagar police station area of Kota.
The court also slapped a penalty of Rs 5,000 on the convict. The case was taken up by the Kota police under the “case officer scheme” and the police officials not only used DNA tests but other scientific evidence to get conviction in the case in nine months after filing the chargesheet.
“The case was taken up in ‘case officer scheme’ and the witnesses were taken to the court on regular basis for statements,” Munindra Singh, SHO of Vigyan Nagar, Kota, said.
The “case officer scheme” is an innovation of the Rajasthan police where popular or notorious cases are earmarked for an integrated effort of the police, the prosecution agency, and the judiciary to ensure a speedy trial.
The case was registered in 2019 after a mutilated and decomposed body of a 40-year-old woman was found in the backyard of a school.
“The woman went missing on May 22, 2019, and two days after she went missing, her body was recovered, but it was not possible to identify it. The assailant had slashed open her abdomen and stuffed all her clothes in it. We found that the cloths belonged to a woman who is from the Bhat community. We called in members of the Bhat community and took DNA samples from a 22-year-old girl whose mother had gone missing. The samples of the victim and the girl matched, and we could identify the victim,” Amrita Duhan, ASP of Kota city, told TOI over phone.
Police then recovered CCTV footages of area and nearby areas where the body was found. “We arrested the accused, one Mohan Lal, 50, almost 20 days after the murder. We found that he fled from Sanganer jail four years ago. He was convicted in a similar case of rape and murder of a woman and was serving life term at Sanganer open jail. Lal confessed that he killed the woman when she resisted his attempt to rape her,” Amrita said.
On Friday, the presiding officer Kailash Chandra Mishra of POCSO court, Kota, awarded capital punishment to the convict.
POCSO courts, established under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, also try cases related to heinous crimes against adults, when the pressure of their regular cases is low.
“We argued that this is a heinous crime and brought to the notice of the court that the arrested accused is a serial rapist and killer. We demanded capital punishment for him,” Suresh Verma, public prosecutor in the case, said.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
The court also slapped a penalty of Rs 5,000 on the convict. The case was taken up by the Kota police under the “case officer scheme” and the police officials not only used DNA tests but other scientific evidence to get conviction in the case in nine months after filing the chargesheet.
“The case was taken up in ‘case officer scheme’ and the witnesses were taken to the court on regular basis for statements,” Munindra Singh, SHO of Vigyan Nagar, Kota, said.
The “case officer scheme” is an innovation of the Rajasthan police where popular or notorious cases are earmarked for an integrated effort of the police, the prosecution agency, and the judiciary to ensure a speedy trial.
The case was registered in 2019 after a mutilated and decomposed body of a 40-year-old woman was found in the backyard of a school.
“The woman went missing on May 22, 2019, and two days after she went missing, her body was recovered, but it was not possible to identify it. The assailant had slashed open her abdomen and stuffed all her clothes in it. We found that the cloths belonged to a woman who is from the Bhat community. We called in members of the Bhat community and took DNA samples from a 22-year-old girl whose mother had gone missing. The samples of the victim and the girl matched, and we could identify the victim,” Amrita Duhan, ASP of Kota city, told TOI over phone.
Police then recovered CCTV footages of area and nearby areas where the body was found. “We arrested the accused, one Mohan Lal, 50, almost 20 days after the murder. We found that he fled from Sanganer jail four years ago. He was convicted in a similar case of rape and murder of a woman and was serving life term at Sanganer open jail. Lal confessed that he killed the woman when she resisted his attempt to rape her,” Amrita said.
On Friday, the presiding officer Kailash Chandra Mishra of POCSO court, Kota, awarded capital punishment to the convict.
POCSO courts, established under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, also try cases related to heinous crimes against adults, when the pressure of their regular cases is low.
“We argued that this is a heinous crime and brought to the notice of the court that the arrested accused is a serial rapist and killer. We demanded capital punishment for him,” Suresh Verma, public prosecutor in the case, said.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
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