Two get death for raping, murdering girl in Jodhpur

JODHPUR: Barely a few hours after an acrimonious comment by the Supreme Court on Tuesday about rampant rapes in the country, a POCSO court in Jodhpur, handed death sentence to two accused of raping and murdering a minor girl, in 2013.


A special court for POCSO cases here in Jodhpur, sentenced two persons, Ghewar Singh and Sharavan Singh, to death on Tuesday, while holding them convicted for rape and murder of a minor girl with a view to erase the evidence.

In the order, special Judge Vamita Singh said, that the act of both the accused is dastardly and is against humanity, heinous at its utmost limit and gruesome; hence it comes under the category of rarest of the rare crimes. “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

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at night and raping her on March 29-30, 2013.

“After raping the girl, the accused had killed her by throwing her from hilly rocks with a view to erase the evidences,” said the prosecution counsel Karnaram Choudhary.

After recovering her body from between the rocks on March 31, police had registered a case under various sections of IPC for abduction, gang rape and murder, SC/ST Act and POCSO Act.

Pronouncing the judgement after five years of the case, the special court here ordered both Ghewar Singh and Sharavan Singh to be hanged till death under Section 376 A, and sentenced the three co-accused namely Prahlad Singh, Narsing Singh and Shanker Singh to seven years of rigorous imprisonment each, for hiding the crime.

Though, the defence counsel pleaded lenience considering the accused being fathers of small children and having no criminal antecedent, but turning down the arguments, the court stated, “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, death sentence would be the only justice”.