{"id":38921,"date":"2015-09-09T09:04:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T09:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=38921"},"modified":"2015-09-09T09:13:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T09:13:25","slug":"man-gets-jail-for-rape-murder-of-8-yr-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/man-gets-jail-for-rape-murder-of-8-yr-old","title":{"rendered":"Man gets jail for rape, murder of 8-yr-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37523\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/person-in-jail.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37523\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/poverty-cant-be-ground-to-keep-undertrials-in-jails-sc\/person-in-jail\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/person-in-jail.png?fit=213%2C151&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"213,151\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"person in jail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/person-in-jail.png?fit=213%2C151&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-37523 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/person-in-jail.png?resize=213%2C151&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Man gets jail for rape, murder of 8-yr-old\" width=\"213\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Man gets jail for rape, murder of 8-yr-old<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A special women&#8217;s court of Mumbai,\u00a0today sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl in Nehru Nagar area of suburban Kurla in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Special Judge Vrushali Joshi had convicted Javed Sheikh (aged around 25) on September 5 for the crime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The court has sentenced Javed Sheikh to life on the charges of kidnapping, rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in June 2010,&#8221; Special Public Prosecutor Pradeep Gharat said.<\/p>\n<p>Gharat told reporters outside the court that the sentence implies that the convict would have to spend his life in jail till death.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh was arrested on July 1, 2010 on charges of raping and killing the minor girl.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution examined 26 witnesses, while the defence examined 4 witnesses in connection with the case.<\/p>\n<p>The girl&#8217;s body was found inside an unoccupied shanty in Nehru Nagar&#8217;s Vatsalatai Nagar slum on June 19, 2010, after the neighbours complained of foul smell. The girl had gone missing on June 5 that year.<\/p>\n<p>The medical report confirmed that the girl had been raped following which Sheikh, an employee of a local cable operator, was arrested in the case.<\/p>\n<p>The police had in August 2010 filed a 325-page charge sheet against Sheikh which consisted of statements of around 45 witnesses, medical reports, forensic reports and DNA test report.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Source &#8211; PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special women&#8217;s court of Mumbai,\u00a0today sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl in Nehru Nagar area of suburban Kurla in 2010. Special Judge Vrushali Joshi had convicted Javed Sheikh (aged around 25) on September 5 for the crime. &#8220;The court has sentenced Javed Sheikh to life on the 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