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Brutal! 4 years Old Raped And Murdered, Convict Gets Death Penalty

Jaipur, Feb 11: A special court here on Thursday awarded death penalty to a 25-year-old man for the rape and murder of a four-year girl in August last year under Narena police station area in Jaipur (Rural).

Special court judge Sandeep Kumar Sharma also imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh on Suresh Kumar Balai. “Prosecution produced atotal of 41 witnesses in the case. None of them turned hostile,” said special public prosecutor Mahaveer Singh Kishnawat.

Police said the parents had on August 12 informed that their daughter had gone missing. Cops fished out her body from a pond the same day and the accused was arrested 15 hours later even as the post-mortem report confirmed the rape.

Balai was booked under Sections 366 (kidnapping), 302 (murder), 201 (Causing disappearance of evidence), 376AB (Person committing an offence of rape on a woman under twelve years of age) of IPC along with relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

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