Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in a tweet that he had visited the victim’s family on June 13 and directed Special Director General of Police L R Bishnoi to form the SIT and ”take the case to a logical conclusion”.
Three accused in the rape and murder of two tribal minor girls have been sentenced to death by a Fast Track Court in Kokrajhar on Friday.
Special Judge C Chaturvedi sentenced 20-year old Muzzamil Sheikh, 19-year old Nasibul Ali Sheikh and 22-year old Farijul Rahman to death for raping and killing two girls in June last year in Kokrajhar.
The accused were convicted on April 6 and the trio were sentenced to death, the first such case in the history of Kokrajhar.
Chaturvedi in his judgment said that he had come to the conclusion that this case falls ”under the rarest of rare cases so far as offences under Section 120 (B) IPC (whoever is a party to a criminal conspiracy to commit an offence is punishable with death), 302 IPC (whereby whoever commits murder shall be punished with death and shall also be liable to fine) and Section 6 (Punishment for aggravated penetrative sexual assault)”.
”In the rarest of rare cases, they be hanged by neck till their death”, the Special Judge ruled.
Besides the sections under which they have been sentenced to death, the accused have been also found guilty under Sections 376(D) (punishment for gangrape), 376(DA) (punishment for gangraped under the age of 16) read with Section 6 of POCSO Act and Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocity Act), 1989.
The Judge further ruled that the accused are convicted of the offences with ”further sentence to pay fine of Rs five lakh”.
He observed that the ”default sentence for non-payment of fine is not being passed since the convict has been sentenced to death. The fine amount is not paid will be recoverable in the manner under Section 421 Cr PC ( the recovery of the fine by issuing a warrant for the levy of the amount by attachment and sale of any movable property belonging to the offender, issue a warrant to the Collector of the district, authorising him to realise the amount as arrears of land revenue from the movable or immovable property, or both) and the amount be paid to the victim’s family.
The Judge also directed that the proceedings of the Court be submitted to the Gauhati High Court as mandated by the law.
The incident had occurred on June 11, leading to a huge outcry and Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had visited the girls’ family.
Sarma had directed the setting up of a Special Investigating Team (SIT) and the trio were arrested on June 14.
The police submitted the 56-page charge sheet within 85 days before the Court and within nine months of the incident, the sentence was awarded to the accused.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in a tweet that he had visited the victim’s family on June 13 and directed Special Director General of Police L R Bishnoi to form the SIT and ”take the case to a logical conclusion”.
