Rahul Singh
MEERUT: A special Pocso court in Bulandshahr has sentenced a 24-year-old man to life imprisonment for attempting to rape a 14-year-old girl and burning her alive when she resisted his advances. Special public prosecutor, Mahesh Raghav, said, “On March 24, 2019, Mohd Aamir was charged with sexual harassment and burning alive a minor. In her dying statement before the magistrate in hospital, she mentioned the name of the convicted man.”
Raghav added: “The girl was at home with two younger sisters when their tenant, Aamir, tried to rape her.When she resisted, the culprit poured kerosene oil on her and set her on fire. Her younger sisters who were witnesses to the crime, called neighbours for help.”
Neighbours informed her parents who were out for work and the girl was taken to district govt hospital from where she was referred to Delhi’s Safdarjung hospital. She succumbed to severe burn injuries on March 30. Following her death, Aamir, a Bulandshahr resident, was also charged with IPC sections 302 (murder) and 354 (criminal assault on a woman), and section 8 (punishment for sexual assault) of Pocso Act.
During the trial, 12 witnesses provided their testimonies before the court. These included her 10-year-old sister. Considering it a “rarest of rare” case, the court of special judge (Pocso), Tarun Kumar Singh, sentenced the man to life imprisonment on Monday.