The Kerala High Court in the case observed and has sentenced the 28-year-old man to death for the brutal rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl at Aluva in July this year.
In the present case, the convict is Asafaq Alam, a native of Bihar and the victim belonged to the migrant labourer family hailing from Bihar.
Therefore, the Ernakulam POCSO Court Judge K. Soman passed the sentence within 109 days of the occurrence of the tragic incident.
The court observed that the child had gone missing on July 28, 2023. Thus, she was strangulated and was dumped into a waste yard in Aluva market.
The police in the case arrested the accused Asafaq Alam, who also being the migrant labourer, in a highly inebriated condition on the same day.
Adding to it, the POSCO court stated that the Asafaq Alam, also a migrant labourer, in a highly inebriated condition on the same day.
The court also took into account the DNA evidence and the seriousness of the nature of offence. The court in the case observed and had convicted Alam for all 16 offences alleged against him, including that of murder, rape and destruction of evidence on November 04, 2023. Therefore, the trial in the case was completed within a record span of 26 days of filing the chargesheet.
The court stated that the charges against the Alam include Section 302, the punishment for murder, Section 376 (2)(j), the rape on woman incapable of giving consent, Section 377, the unnatural offences, Section 328, the hurt by means of poison, Section 364, the kidnapping or abducting in order to murder, Section 366A, the procuration of minor girl, Section 367, the kidnapping or abduction to subject person to grievous hurt, slavery, etc, Section 297, the indignity to human corpus, and Section 201, the disappearance of evidence of the Indian Penal Code, IPC, and Section 5 of the POCSO Act.
The judgement was pronounced by the POSCO Court on the occasion of Children’s Day.