Man Gets Death Sentence in MP for Rape, Murder of Minor Niece

Bhopal: A district court in Madhya Pradesh’s Narmadapuram district on Wednesday awarded death sentence to a man for raping and killing his minor niece in 2021.

Suresh Kumar Choube, the Additional District Judge (ADJ) of Sohagpur court in Narmadapuram district, found the accused guilty of rape and murder.

The court based its decision on the DNA reports, and the testimony of the victim’s elder brother, who is also a minor. The convict is the maternal uncle of the victim.

As per the chargesheet, the convict committed the heinous crime on December 25, 2021. While investigating a missing complaint, police found the victim’s body on the rooftop of her house.

After committing the crime, the accused misled the victim’s family and the police by posing that he too was searching for the ‘missing’ girl. The post-mortem report confirmed that the victim was raped before suffocated to death.

The accused was arrested on the basis of bite marks on the victim’s body.