{"id":33603,"date":"2014-06-06T11:09:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T05:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=33603"},"modified":"2014-06-06T11:09:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T05:39:40","slug":"rape-murder-4-yr-old-girl-convict-moves-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/rape-murder-4-yr-old-girl-convict-moves-sc","title":{"rendered":"Rape, murder of 4-yr-old girl: Convict moves SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/court-wants-10-percent-more-judges-for-subordinate-courts\/supreme-court-210\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19664\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19664\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-wants-10-percent-more-judges-for-subordinate-courts\/supreme-court-210\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court2.png?fit=135%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"135,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"supreme court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court2.png?fit=135%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court2.png?fit=135%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19664 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/supreme-court2.png?resize=166%2C177&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"supreme court\" width=\"166\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear on Tuesday the appeal of a 48-year-old man awarded death penalty by the Rajasthan High Court for abducting, raping and killing his four-year-old neighbour at Sriganganagar in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the convict, his juvenile son also took part in the offence of rape and murder of the minor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;List it for hearing on Tuesday,&#8221; a bench of justices J S Kehar and C Nagappan said after the lawyer for the condemned convict Kalu Khan mentioned the plea seeking urgent hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Khan moved the apex court against the April 4 verdict of the high court by which his appeal against the conviction and award of death penalty has been dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>The high court allowed the state&#8217;s reference and confirmed the death penalty in the case.<\/p>\n<p>The girl, whose parents had gone out, was lured by the convict on the promise of giving her some berry on the morning of May 3, 2012, the prosecution said.<\/p>\n<p>Khan and his minor son raped the victim in turn and later, as her condition worsened, they killed her before burying her in a pit in their courtyard, it added.<\/p>\n<p>Some witnesses had said that during the search, they found the juvenile son of the accused burying something in a pit and on being confronted, he panicked and that led to the recovery of victim&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n<p>In the appeal, filed through lawyer Asha Jain Madan, the convict said that the courts below have failed to &#8220;appreciate that the entire prosecution case rests solely on circumstantial evidence which is wholly insufficient to base the conviction of the petitioner and that too for award of capital sentence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It also said that the prosecution&#8217;s story is &#8220;totally improbable&#8221; as the convict and his minor son cannot have done the &#8220;sinful&#8221; act together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The capital sentence at the age of 48 years with clean past, should not have been awarded as there was all possibility of reformation of the petitioner,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear on Tuesday the appeal of a 48-year-old man awarded death penalty by the Rajasthan High Court for abducting, raping and killing his four-year-old neighbour at Sriganganagar in 2012. 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