Death penalty to 3 accused in gang-rape and murder of woman, kids in Delhi

Delhi’s Tis Hazari Court has recently awarded death sentence to three men for gang-raping and murder of a woman along with her two minor children.  

The incident was reported at Khyala police station where the convicts first gang-raped the women and then killed her with a screwdriver. Thereafter, they murdered her two children, boy (7) and girl (6), and then robbed the house.

The case was reported in 2015 when the husband of the victim lodged a complaint. According to the information, four people, including a minor (juvenile), were involved in the brutal rape and murders.

The death penalty has been awarded to Shahid, Akram and Rafat Ali alias Manzoor Ali by a special Fast Track Court Judge Aanchal of Tis Hazari for the offence under section 302 (murder) and 120B (criminal conspiracy).

In addition to life imprisonment, the court has also imposed a fine of ₹35000 on each convict. The court had convicted the accused persons on August 22.

While announcing the judgement, the court said, “There is a constant chain of evidence when the three accused were seen going upstairs to the place of incident and thereafter the heinous crime of three murder, one rape and robbery came into light, thereafter the four including three accused and Juvenile left Delhi one after another, then met at Aligarh on 23.09.2015 where the proceeds of offence was distributed and disposed off and the t-shirts of three accused, scree-driver, the weapon of offence of commission of murder of “S” was found bearing blood stains of deceased and none of the accused presented any hypothesis inconsistent to the finding of their guilt.”