Man gets death for rape, murder of minor daughter

Amritsar, August 31

A POCSO court has awarded death penalty to a man for raping and murdering his six-year-old daughter at Lakhuwal village in Baba Bakala near here four years ago.

Additional District and Sessions Judge-cum-judge of the fast-track court found Pratap Singh (36) guilty of the crime and awarded death penalty to him, besides imposing a fine of Rs 1 lakh under Section 302 of the IPC and imprisonment for life and a fine of Rs 50,000 under Section 6 of the POCSO Act. Both sentences would run concurrently.

As per the FIR registered at the Khalchian police station on January 5, 2020, Ramanjit Kaur, mother of the victim and wife of the convict, said Partap Singh raped and murdered her daughter on the intervening night of January 4 and 5. The minor girl’s body was found hanging from a tree in the nearby forest area.