Double death penalty to rape, murder accused Bamore
| Date :12-Jul-2019 |
Staff Reporter:
A 32-day trial ended in a death sentence for Vishnu Bamore, who raped and killed a nine-year-old girl last month, as a special POCSO court on Thursday awarded double death penalty to him. The trial was completed on Wednesday and the order reserved for Thursday. The 33-year-old accused reportedly showed no emotions after getting the death sentence.
In a speedy judgement, Special Judge (for POCSO cases) Kumudini Patel stated Vishnu’s crime as ‘rarest of the rare’ and pronounced the capital punishment to Vishnu Bamore on two separate offences under Indian Penal Code Sections 302 (murder) and 376-AB (raping a girl of 12-year-old and below) adding that the convict deserved no leniency from the court. The convict was also sentenced to life for the offence of unnatural sex with the minor girl, said Assistant District Prosecution Officer (ADPO) Yogesh Tiwari. The judge also awarded him three years and seven years’ imprisonment under IPC Sections 363 and 366, respectively, for kidnapping the minor and abduction for forced and illicit intercourse.
The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court ordered all the sentences to run concurrently, Tiwari said. Bamore was pronounced guilty on the basis of reports of the DNA test conducted by the Bhopal and Sagar-based forensic science laboratories and taking into account other vital aspects. After confessing to the crime soon after his arrest on June 11, Bamore had changed his statement in court on July 4 and claimed he was innocent. However, a 108-page chargesheet and 40 witnesses presented in the court by the prosecution proved that he was guilty of the charges, he said.
The nine-year-old girl went missing from evening of June 8 after she came out of her house in Mandwa Basti, was raped and found murdered on June 9. The victim’s body was found in a drain near her residence in Nehru Nagar. The accused Vishnu is a neighbour of the victim and had been found absconding after the body was recovered, though he was present at the spot on the night of crime when search was on for the girl. The accused was later arrested from Mortakka village in Khandwa on June 10. The post-mortem report had confirmed sexual assault and death due to strangulation. A 108-page chargesheet was filed against him on June 12.