INDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF FIVE-YEAR-OLD CHILD

October 8, 2024:

A local court in Sangareddy district of Telangana on September 12, 2024 awarded death sentence to a man for raping and murdering a five-year-old girl in October 2023.
The convict Gaffar Ali (56) is a migrant labourer from Bihar.
He was sentenced to death by the district POCSO court judge K Jayanthi.
District SP Chennuri Rupesh said the trial was completed within 11 months after the crime was reported on October 16, 2023 in BDL Bhanur police station limits.
He said the convict and the victim’s parents used to work in a construction company in Bhanur.
When the parents left for work they left the five-year-old girl in the security guard’s room. Gaffar Ali who was in an inebriated condition took her away and offered a cool drink laced with liquor. Later, he took the girl to a cotton field and raped her. Fearing that she could identify him as the assailant, he strangled her to death.
The judge also asked the government to pay a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the victim’s parents.
Rupesh appreciated the work of then SHO Ravindar Reddy, Public Prosecutors Anantha Rao Kulakarni, Krishna and others, which led to successful conviction in the case.