INDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SODOMY, MURDER OF 8- YR-OLD

October 9, 2025:

Ghazipur district's Special Court (Pocso) Judge Ramavatar Prasad on October 7, 2025 sentenced accused Sanjay Nat to death for sodomising and murdering an eight-year-old in Feb last year.
Court completed trial and pronounced the sentence within 20 months. According to special prosecution officer (Pocso) Prabhunarain Singh, on Feb 19, 2024, Sanjay Nat, resident of a village under Gahmar police station area, lured an eight-year-old boy and took him to his house. After sodomising the boy, Nat strangulated him to death with a rope. Following this, accused Sanjay Nat stuffed the child's body in jute and plastic sacks and hid it in a tin box in his house. When family members began searching for the boy, a child from the village informed them that Nat had lured the boy and taken him to his house. Police reached Nat's house and found the child's body. Nat was arrested and sent to jail.
According to the prosecution, police filed charge sheet in court on May 19, 2024. On Jun 6, 2024, court framed charges.
The prosecution presented eight witnesses, who recorded their statements. After hearing arguments from both sides, court sentenced the convict to death.