Mumbai court awards death penalty in 2019 rape-murder of 9-year-old girl, whose body was found in septic tank
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A Mumbai court announced the death sentence for the accused who had kidnapped the girl in the Juhu area in April 2019 and raped her. Her body was recovered a few days later from a septic tank of a public toilet near her home.
New Delhi: A court in Maharashtra’s Mumbai awarded death penalty to a convict in the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl in 2019. The Dindoshi court in Mumbai pronounced the death sentence for convict Gudappa Chinnatambi Devendra in the rape and murder case of the minor girl after she was kidnapped by him in the Juhu area in April 2019, ANI reported. Her body was recovered a few days later from a septic tank of a public toilet near her home.
The prosecutor on Thursday had sought the death sentence for the accused for kidnapping, raping and murdering the nine-year-old child.
Maharashtra | Dindoshi court in Mumbai awards the death penalty to convict Gudappa Chinnatambi Devendra in connection with the rape of a 9-year-old girl after she was kidnapped by the convict in Juhu area in April 2019. Her dead body was later found in a sewer: Mumbai Police
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Special Pocso judge had found Devendra guilty on Tuesday and had adjourned the hearing to Friday to announce the quantum of punishment.
