Hyderabad court awards death penalty for raping and killing 5-year-old

A local court in Hyderabad awarded death penalty to a man convicted of rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in December 2017.

Pronouncing the judgment on Tuesday, Judge B Suresh Babu of the MSJ court in LB Nagar sentenced the accused, D Dinesh Kumar (23), to capital punishment and a fine of Rs 1,000. He was prosecuted on charges of kidnap, rape and murder apart from section 5 r/w 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act–2012.

The victim’s mother, a labourer from Odisha, had approached Narsingi police with a complaint in December 2017 stating that her daughter was taken away by Dinesh Kumar, a centering worker, from the labour camp on the pretext of buying her a chocolate. When he returned to the camp later, the mother questioned him but he feigned ignorance, the complaint said.