06 July 2004 :

It was reported that the fear of capital punishment made Noor Mohammed, a rapist, admit his crime and also return the victim, whom he had kidnapped, to her family in West Bengal. The man allegedly surrendered to police, asking he should not be given capital punishment because he was admitting to his crime and had even returned his 12-year-old victim to her parents. The rapist said he became scared after reading about the impending hanging of Dhananjoy Chatterjee, who had raped and murdered a teenager in Kolkata in 1990. Police said Mohammed surrendered in Mathabari village in Malda district, from where he had kidnapped the girl and run away to Panipath in Haryana. Mohammed told police he had "only raped her a few times" but never considered killing her. "I don't want to hang. So, I decided to surrender. I didn't intend to kill her or sell her to anyone," Mohammed, who was arrested immediately, told police.