{"id":1936,"date":"2025-02-19T09:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T09:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldinfo.news\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2025-02-19T09:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T09:11:53","slug":"india-a-man-gets-death-penalty-for-raping-7-month-old-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldinfo.news\/2025\/02\/19\/india-a-man-gets-death-penalty-for-raping-7-month-old-child\/","title":{"rendered":"India: A man gets death penalty for raping 7-month-old child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Kolkata court gave Rajib Ghosh a death sentence for raping and attempting to kill a seven-month-old child.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Judge Indrila Mukhopadhyay Mitra <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/rarest-of-rare-man-gets-death-for-raping-infant\/articleshow\/118367559.cms\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> , reading out the verdict, \u201cThis is a rarest of rare cases. There cannot be any other punishment that the court can think of.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Tuesday, a special POCSO court in Kolkata found a man guilty of raping and attempting to kill a seven-month-old child in north Kolkata and sentenced him to hang.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) court in Bankshall found the man guilty on Monday of kidnapping, raping, and attempting to kill a toddler from the Burtolla neighborhood of the city within 75 days of his detention.<\/p>\n<h2><b>Death Penalty under POSCO Act<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">After hearing the final submissions from the defense counsel and the public prosecutor representing the state, the court announced the sentence.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The prosecutor had requested the death penalty, arguing that the crime was one of the \u2018rarest of the rare\u2019 cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The convict, Rajib Ghosh, was found guilty by Judge Indrila Mukherjee under multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code 65 (2), 140 (4), 137 (2), and 118 along Section 6 of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiacode.nic.in\/bitstream\/123456789\/2079\/1\/AA2012-32.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">POCSO Act<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Experts and Lawyers opinions about death penalty<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Legal experts pointed out that the penalty in such cases ranged from 20 years behind bars to life imprisonment and even death. The judge chose the death penalty, reasoning that the abuse of the seven-month-old girl was extremely rare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Special public prosecutor Bivas Chatterjee sought death pentaly for the accused.\u201cThe defense lawyer argued that the accused was young and has elderly parents at home. To counter that argument , we cited several Supreme Court rulings, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiacode.nic.in\/bitstream\/123456789\/2079\/1\/AA2012-32.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chatterjee said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Nirbhaya case: Death penalty served after 7 years<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>The courts applied the death penalty to the rapists in the notable 2012 Nirbhaya case (the Delhi gang rape case), sparking protests and igniting conversations about the death sentence for rape across the country.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Indian Penal Code (IPC) permits the death sentence under Section 376A (for inflicting death or a vegetative state of the victim) or Section 376E (for repeat offenders) in situations of rape that results in death or extreme violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nevertheless, even with these clauses, rape trials seldom end in the death penalty; instead, life in prison is the norm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kolkata court gave Rajib Ghosh a death sentence for raping and attempting to kill a seven-month-old child. Judge Indrila Mukhopadhyay Mitra said , reading out the verdict, \u201cThis is a rarest of rare cases. 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