Ghaziabad: A courtroom in Ghaziabad district in UP has sentenced a youth to dying for kidnapping and raping and murdering a four-year-old woman, about two months and 4 days after the incident. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Trans Hindon Deeksha Sharma stated that the Additional District and Sessions Judge of the POCSO courtroom right here on Saturday awarded dying sentence to Sonu Gupta, convicted of raping and murdering a four-year-old woman on December 1 final yr. Heard.
Giving particulars of the case, the DCP stated that the woman’s physique was recovered the subsequent day after the incident in City Forest below Sahibabad police station space.
He stated that the police constituted six groups to unravel the incident and 6 days after the crime, whereas investigating on the premise of CCTV footage, arrested the accused Sonu Gupta (20) from 40 Foota Road, Deendayal Puri space of Nandgram police station space. After finishing the authorized course of, he was despatched to jail.
Deeksha Sharma advised that inside 15 days of the incident, the police had filed a cost sheet within the sections of kidnapping, rape and homicide. He stated that the courtroom gave its verdict inside two months and 4 days. The courtroom on Friday convicted the accused after listening to 16 witnesses.
He advised that Sonu Gupta had confessed that he had kidnapped the woman with the intention of raping her. When the woman screamed, he stuffed a grimy fabric in her mouth and strangulated her to dying.
The DCP stated that the police despatched the blood-stained garments of Sonu and the sufferer for DNA take a look at, which confirmed the similarity of the blood stains. An entry ticket to City Forest Park was additionally recovered from the rape accused, which confirmed his presence within the space.
