A particular Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act court docket in Chhattisgarh’s Durg has sentenced a 24-year-old man to demise for raping and murdering a six-year-old woman, calling the case among the many “rarest of uncommon”.
The Supreme Courtroom affirmed the constitutional validity of the demise penalty in 1973, 1979 and 1980, holding that if capital punishment is offered in regulation and the process is truthful, simply and cheap, a demise sentence will be awarded however solely within the “rarest of uncommon” circumstances. Courts are required to file particular causes for sentencing a convict to the gallows.
The particular court docket convicted Somesh Yadav on Thursday below the POCSO Act Part 6(1) and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Part 103(1) associated to aggravated penetrative sexual assault and homicide. He was fined ₹5,000 below every part.
Yadav was sentenced to 5 years’ rigorous imprisonment and fined ₹1,000 below BNS Part 238(a), which offers with disappearance of proof or giving false info. The sentences will run concurrently.
The court docket directed ₹7 lakh compensation to the woman’s household below the state authorities’s sufferer compensation scheme.
The woman was present in a automobile and declared lifeless at a hospital after she was reported lacking in April 2025. Yadav was convicted based mostly on bodily and organic proof and CCTV footage, other than circumstantial proof, after a particular investigation group probed the case.