“Aluva Child Rape, Murder Rarest Of Rare; Convict Deserves Death Penalty”: Prosecution Tells Kochi Court

The police on Thursday urged a POCSO court in Kochi to sentence to death the man convicted in the horrific Aluva child rape and murder case.

During arguments on the quantum of punishment to be given, the prosecution sought the death sentence for Ashwaq Alam (migrant labourer), for raping and killing a 5-year-old girl from Bihar.

Public Prosecutor G Mohanraj stated, Special POCSO court judge K Soman, who convicted Alam on November 4, will pronounce the sentence on November 14.

After arguments on the sentence concluded, Mohanraj met reporters outside the court and stated, the prosecution argued that the case comes under the rarest-of-rare category and therefore the highest punishment of the land should be given to the convict.

The prosecutor stated, the defence on the other hand cited the age of the convict and the possibility of his reformation as reasons for a lesser sentence.

Alam himself claimed in court that the other accused were let go and only he was caught in the case and beyond that he didn’t make any other submission.

The court found Alam guilty of all 16 offences in the charge sheet.

The prosecutor stated earlier, out of 16, 5 offences are punishable by death.

The minor girl was brutally raped and strangulated to death on July 28 after she was abducted from her rented house here.

The body of the girl was found dumped in a stack in a marshy area behind a local market in nearby Aluva and the accused was arrested based on CCTV visuals.

Meera Verma

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