“Mumbai: 24-year-old transgender person sentenced to death for rape and murder of infant”, Indian Express, February 28, 2024:
“A SPECIAL court on Tuesday sentenced to death a transgender person for the rape and murder of a three-month-old girl in 2021, after her family expressed their inability to pay money and give gifts for blessing the newborn child.
The court found the 24-year-old guilty on charges including rape, murder, kidnapping, destruction of evidence of the Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, while it acquitted a co-accused, who was also booked on the same charges, for lack of evidence. The court said that the crime was pre-planned and would “send a chill down the spine of every parent of a girl child, especially in a poor vicinity”.
While there were no eyewitnesses to the kidnapping of the child from her home in the middle of the night on July 8, 2021, the court based its judgment on circumstantial evidence, including testimonies of the family and two neighbours, who claimed to have seen the accused around 2 am carrying a “bundle” on his shoulder…..”
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