2 Men Sentenced To Death For Rape & Torture Of 8 Yr Old Girl In India

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Two child rapists who brutally tortured an eight-year-old girl, slit her throat and left her for dead have been sentenced to hang in India under the country’s recently toughened anti-rape legislation.

Irfan Mewati, 20, and Asif Mewati, 24 abducted the child, who was waiting for her Father outside her school,  and took her to a secluded spot where they raped her and mutilated her body parts with a knife before trying to slit her throat and running away.

RT reports: The 350-page case, based on 92 witness testimonies and over 100 pieces of evidence, including CCTV footage and DNA samples, was enough for Sessions Judge Nisha Gupta in Mandsaur to sentence the duo to death, under the revised Indian Penal Code and under relevant provisions of the Protection of Children against Sexual Offences Act, which mandates capital punishment for persons committing rape on victims under 12 years of age.

Noting that the accused “do not deserve leniency” in this “rarest of the rare case,” Judge Gupta stressed that “death was only way out to punish” Asif and Irfan.

On June 26, the criminal duo lured an eight-year-old student from outside her school where she was waiting for her father. They took her to a secluded spot and gang-raped her. The rapists then slashed her throat and left her to die.

The child was however saved by locals and regained consciousness in hospital some 18 hours after the assault. The girl suffered severe injuries to her neck, face, head and private parts, and is still recovering in hospital.

The act of the two accused was of a cruel and gruesome nature,” the judge was quoted as saying by assistant district prosecution officer Nitesh Krishnan. “The accused not only raped her, but they attacked and injured her private parts and other delicate body parts with a knife.”

The rape of an eight-year-old from Mandsaur ignited outrage among locals who carried out protests across Madhya Pradesh state of central India, demanding justice. Tuesday’s verdict was the sixth capital sentence handed down in Madhya Pradesh, which was the first state to enact the death penalty for rapists of minor girls below 12 in December.

5 Comments

  1. They are Indians from India not Pakstanis. And they should be raped cut up and then hung.
    That poor girls life will be worse than death after what these monsters did to her.

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