Man sentenced to death for rape, murder
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The District and Sessions Court of Haveri sentenced a person to death beneath the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act on Thursday, after discovering him responsible of raping and murdering a minor woman in 2018.
First Additional District and Sessions Judge E. Raju Gowda sentenced Manjunath Shankargouda Patil to death for murdering his 17-year-old relative, after raping her.
Haveri Rural Police, who investigated the case, arrested the accused and produced him earlier than courtroom. Circle Inspector of Police Bhasu Chauhan, who filed the charge-sheet, mentioned that Manjunath Patil had laid out a plan to rape his relative for many days. He lied to her that he’ll drop her to faculty however took her to his sister’s home.
There he strangled her and raped her when she was in a semi-conscious state. Later, fearing that she may reveal the offence, he bludgeoned her with a membership 4 or 5 instances. He took the physique to a close-by riverbed and set hearth to it with the intention of destroying proof, the charge-sheet mentioned.
Special Public Prosecutor Vinayak Patil argued for the State.
