Srinagar: A court in Srinagar on Saturday awarded death penalty to a 40-year-old man from Mehjoor Nagar Srinagar for “brutal rape and murder” of a minor girl in 2005.
After committing rape, the accused, Farooq Ahmed Pinzoo of Mahjoor Nagar Srinagar, had wrapped the body of the girl, a 6-year-old body in a sack and put it in a trench.
After strenuous efforts, police had arrested Pinzoo of Mahjoor Nagar for the brutal rape and murder of the six-year-old girl and according FIR (180 of 2005) under RPC sections of 302, 364, 376, 201 was registered against him police station Sadder here.
Subsequently, the accused was charge-sheeted and trial culminated earlier this week into his conviction by 2nd Additional Sessions Judge Srinagar, Tahir Khurshid Raina for the offences of kidnapping, rape and murder of the girl.
Having convicted Pinzoo for the gruesome rape and murder, the court announced the quantum of punishment.
“A little doll of just six years of age, who was yet to bloom and add to the beauty of the world was crushed to death in the most horrendous and barbaric manner in the year 2005 by the convict,” the court said.
“I have dealt with the issue very meticulously keeping in view the entire journey travelled by the superior courts on the science of penology vis-a-vis lifer and capital punishment is concerned,” the judge said.
The court added: “No one can even think in his imagination that a little doll who might have seen the accused with many hopes, especially as her custodian and in whose lap she would have felt all care and comforts, became responsible for crushing her at her budding stage of life.”
