The Mumbai High Court upheld on Thursday the death sentence of 30-year-old Ramkirat Munilal Goud from Kasarvadavli, Thane Province, who was convicted of raping and killing a three-year-old girl who was out to play with her pet in September 2013. . The meeting court sentenced Goode to death on March 8, 2019, and the offender challenged it in the High Court. The state government has submitted a request to HC to confirm the death sentence.
"Seeing a happy and harmless child playing in her own world, a villain driven by desire noticed her," the judges of the Chamber of Justice Sadhana S Jadhav and Prithviraj K Chavan observed. A few days later, the minor was killed and her body was found in a muddy pond.
"Such incidents made every little girl’s parents feel chills on their backs, and then they sent their unsuspecting and innocent underage girls to see the rainbow, because they would be afraid whether she would become the prey of any monsters. The safety of girls is of utmost importance to society,” HC observed.
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In another case, the court revoked the death sentence and acquitted Rahimuddin Mohfuz Shaikh, one of the two criminals who raped two women and murdered one of them in Belapur in May 2012.
The High Court revoked the death sentence against the other defendants in October 2019 and accepted his defense as a minor at the time of the crime. In 2012, the two defendants promised to provide catering for two scavengers. The two women were eventually taken to a remote location in Belapur, the CBD of Navi Mumbai, where they were forced to drink alcohol by the defendant. Afterwards, they were raped and attacked with sharp weapons, including hacksaw blades and knives. Although both women were dead, one of them managed to escape.
"According to the meeting court order on May 11, 2017, the conviction and death sentence of the defendant Sheikh was revoked and put on hold, providing him with suspected benefits," HC held.
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