Supreme Court upholds death sentence for convict in rape and murder of four-year-old
A three-judge bench presided over by Justice Dipak Misra dismissed a review petition filed by Vasanta Sampat Dupare, a Maharashtra resident, for reconsidering the 2014 judgment.
The convict, now 55-year-old, is lodged in Nagpur Central jail.
The bench, said, "we have given anxious consideration to the plea made by the convict in his review petition but the extreme depravity and barbaric manner in which the crime was committed outweigh the mitigating circumstances."
According to the prosecution, the appellant took away the daughter of his acquaintance, on his bicycle on April 3, 2008 in the name of offering her chocolates.
He raped the child at a secluded place and stoned her to death.
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