Death for man in Mumbai techie rape-murder case

Mumbai, October 30

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A special women’s court here today awarded death sentence to 29-year-old driver Chandrabhan Sanap for raping and murdering a 23-year-old software engineer at suburban Kurla here last year, holding it falls under “the rarest of the rare cases.”

“The case falls under the category of the rarest of rare, hence the accused is awarded death sentence...he must be hanged by his neck till he is dead,” said Special Women’s Court judge Vrushali Joshi pronouncing the verdict.

Sanap was convicted under IPC Section 302 (murder), Section 376 (rape) and Section 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) for raping and killing the techie, after the court agreed with the prosecution, which had examined 39 witnesses in the case.

The prosecution demanded death for Sanap, saying that sympathy to him would send wrong signal and neither the victim’s parents nor society would feel that justice had been delivered.

The victim, hailing from Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh, went missing from Lokmanya Tilak terminus near Kurla after arriving by train from home in the early hours of January 5, 2014. Her decomposed body was found off the Eastern Express Highway in suburban Bhandup on January 16, 2014. — PTI