Union Minister Maneka Gandhi demanded the death penalty for the accused in the rape and murder of an 8 year old child. The Minister stated her Women and Child Development Ministry would pass a cabinet note on Monday for this purpose.
In a video, Gandhi said, “I have been deeply, deeply disturbed by the rape case in Kathua and all the recent rape cases that have happened on children. I and the Ministry intend to bring an amendment to the POCSO Act asking for the death penalty for rape on children below 12 years.”
On the 10th of January, the little girl was kidnapped from near her village and sedated. The minor was brutally gang raped for days by a group that included a teenager and police officers. According to the charge sheet, just before the girl’s head was bashed in with a rock one of the police officers asked the man to wait so he could rape her one more time.
On the 17th of January, the girl’s body was found in the forests. The two police officers involved tampered with evidence and helped the accused. The charge sheet filed by the police revealed the depravity of the crime and the terrifying last days of the innocent child.
The main accused is a retired revenue department official who plotted this gruesome crime. This was in an attempt to scare the Bakherwal nomads and drive them out of the Rassana area. The girl was one of the nomads and lived in a village in Rassana. The other rapists are special police officers Deepak Khajuria and Surender Verma. A total of eight men have been arrested for being part of one of the worst rape cases the country has seen.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has remained silent about this gruesome case as have many from his Government. Maneka Gandhi is the second politician to speak about this case after Union Minister V. K. Singh demanded justice for the innocent child.
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