Two awarded life sentence for raping minor
Ghewar Singh and Sharavan Singh have been awarded life sentence for raping and murdering a minor.
"For this, it is bounden to punish Ghewar Singh and Sharavan Singh only with death sentence for justice to prevail," the order said.
A police team led by the then SP (Barmer) Rahul Barhat had arrested Ghewar Singh and Sharavan Singh along with three others for abducting a minor girl from her house in village Rinva in Barmer's Chohtan on the night of March 29-30, 2013 and raping her.
After raping the girl, the accused killed her to erase the evidence, said prosecution counsel Karnaram Choudhary.
Pronouncing judgment, the special court in Jodhpur ordered that both Ghewar Singh and Sharavan Singh to be hanged until death and sentenced the three co-accused Prahlad Singh, Narsing Singh and Shanker Singh to seven years rigorous imprisonment each for hiding the crime.
"Where a minor girl was abducted and gang-raped without any provocation and brutally murdered; and the murder was so gruesome that it stirred not only the conscience of the society but judicial conscience also, only death sentence would be justice," the court said.
-PTC News
