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| Indore court awards death penalty to rapist in 13 days | | Will Kulgam sex scandal victim ever get justice? | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 13: A court in Indore has awarded death penalty to a man for raping and killing a three moth old baby. The court verdict came in 13 days after the police filed the charge sheet. The speedy police investigation and the fast track trail has been widely hailed.
The heinous crime was committed by a distant relative on April 20 when the baby was sleeping with her parents.
The state of JammuKashmir has a lesson to learn from the session judge who created history by completing the trail in just 13 days. The court often continued working till much after the regular working hours to get the infant and her family speedy justice.. There are several cases in Kashmir and Jammu courts where the victims and their families are waiting for justice for years together.
The Kulgam sex scandal can be cited as an example in this regard in which police filed a chargesheet on April 21 without naming a police officer involved the alleged Kulgam sex scandal involving a policeman and a PDP legislator named by the victim.
On February 2, a girl had alleged that she had been pushed into flesh trade and a station house officer had raped her during her stay in a Jammu hote
The case came to the fore when the victim gave an interview to local journalists in Kulgam, alleging that a woman Meema , and her daughter had taken her to Jammu along with another girl from Kokernag, where they stayed in A hotel in the Gumat area.
"I was told by the mastermind to go to a PDP legislator from Kulgam district for a night. I was told I would be paid Rs 10,000, but I refused. I was raped by an SHO and another boy working in the hotel," the girl had told the police and media.
When the incident came to the fore, the Kulgam district police constituted a special investigation team headed by a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) to probe the matter. "But during the course of investigation, the DSP was transferred and when the chargesheet was filed, the Kulgam SP was also shifted," said a source in the police department.
The role of police and the government in shielding a police officer and a PDP legislator has evoked widespread resentment. The civil society has said that the police should have acted the way Indore police has acted.
The government has been urged to do the needful to ensure justice to the victim and her family. The legal experts have opined that a supplementary challan naming the police officer and the PDP legislato must be filed in the interest of justice. |
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