Haryana Man Sentenced To Death For Raping 5-Yr-Old Girl & Stuffing Her Body In Wheat Flour Bag
A 23-year-old man has been sentenced to death by a court for the rape and murder of a five year-old girl in 2018. The girl who was raped and murdered was his employers daughter. The man had some conflict going on with his employer following which he raped and killed the minor girl. He then stabbed her in the stomach and stuffed her body inside a wheat flour container. As many as 109 children were sexually abused every day in India in 2018 accordi...Read More
A 23-year-old man has been sentenced to death by a court for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in 2018. The girl who was raped and murdered was his employer¡¯s daughter.
The girl, in Haryana's Palwal district, 79 km from Delhi, was kidnapped, raped and stabbed to death in June 2018 by Virender, who is also known as Bholu.
The man had some conflict going on with his employer. They had a heated argument following which he raped and killed the minor girl. According to a report by India Today, he then stabbed her in the stomach and stuffed her body inside a wheat flour container.
The man¡¯s mother also helped her in the crime and has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment. A local court has also fined her Rs 5,000, news agency quoted the complainant's lawyer Rajesh Singh Rawat.
As many as 109 children were sexually abused every day in India in 2018, according to the data by the National Crime Record Bureau, which showed a 22 per cent jump in such cases from the previous year.
According to the recently released NCRB data, 32,608 cases were reported in 2017 while 39,827 cases were reported in 2018 under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO).
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POCSO Act, 2012 is a comprehensive law to provide for the protection of children from offences of sexual assault, sexual harassment and pornography. It requires special treatment of cases relating to child sexual abuse such as setting-up of special courts, special prosecutors, and support persons for child victims.
As many as 21,605 child rapes were recorded in 2018 which included 21,401 rapes of girls and 204 of boys, the data showed.
The highest number of child rapes were recorded in Maharashtra at 2,832 followed by Uttar Pradesh at 2023 and Tamil Nadu at 1457, the data showed.
Overall crimes against children has increased steeply over six times in the decade over 2008-2018, from 22,500 cases recorded in 2008 to 1,41,764 cases in 2018, according to the NCRB data from 2008 and 2018.
