BENGALURU: A Pocso court on Friday held a 25-year-old daily-wage worker guilty of sodomising and murdering a one-and-a-half-year-old boy in September 2015 and awarded him death sentence, saying the offence was “of diabolic nature”.
Judge KN Roopa awarded death sentence to V Murthy alias Hallujja for murder and unnatural offence under IPC and the Pocso Act, respectively. Besides, the court slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 on Murthy, who had smashed the infant with a 40kg stone and tried to burn the body in a bid to hide the victim’s identity.
The crime was committed on September 12, 2015, when the child’s father left the infant in Murthy’s care for some time.
Judge KN Roopa awarded death sentence to V Murthy alias Hallujja for murder and unnatural offence under IPC and the Pocso Act, respectively. Besides, the court slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 on Murthy, who had smashed the infant with a 40kg stone and tried to burn the body in a bid to hide the victim’s identity.
The crime was committed on September 12, 2015, when the child’s father left the infant in Murthy’s care for some time.