{"id":217626,"date":"2019-08-01T23:40:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T18:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=217626"},"modified":"2019-08-07T17:05:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T11:35:15","slug":"man-rapes-a-10-year-old-sc-awards-death-sentence-by-a-21-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/08\/01\/man-rapes-a-10-year-old-sc-awards-death-sentence-by-a-21-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Man rapes a 10-year-old &#038; throws her &#038; her brother alive in canal; SC awards death sentence by a 2:1 verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Supreme Court<\/strong>: In a ghastly case involving rape and murder of 2 children, the 3-judge bench of RF Nariman, Surya Kant and Sanjiv Khanna, JJ <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>upheld the conviction of the accused but<\/em> <em>gave 2:1 verdict on quantum of punishment<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>FACTUAL BACKGROUND<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>In October 2010, accused Mohanakrishnan &amp; Manoharan kidnapped a 10-year-old girl &amp; her 7-year-old brother while they were preparing to leave for school.<\/li>\n<li>The children were taken to a remote area and rape was committed on the girl.<\/li>\n<li>Attempt was made to kill both the children by feeding them poisonous cow dung powder mixed in milk. However, the children took only a small amount of the milk and didn\u2019t die.<\/li>\n<li>The children were then thrown away alive in the Parambikulam-Axhiyar Project canal.<\/li>\n<li>Both the accused were arrested but Mohanakrishnan was later shot dead in an encounter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>QUANTUM OF PUNISHMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MAJORITY VIEW BY NARIMAN AND SURYA KANT, JJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Considering the serious nature of the crime, Justice Nariman, writing for himself and Surya Kant, J said that <em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">there is no doubt that aggravated penetrative sexual assault was committed on the 10 year old girl by more than one person<\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The 10 year old girl child (who was below 12 years of age) would fall within Section 5 (m) of the POCSO 48 Act<\/span><\/em>. He further said,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere can be no doubt that today\u2019s judgment is in keeping with the legislature\u2019s realisation that such crimes are on the rise and must be dealt with severely.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was noticed that the crime in the case at hand was extremely shocking as a young 10 year old girl has first been horribly gangraped after which<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em> she and her brother aged 7 years were done away with while they were conscious by throwing them into a canal which caused their death by drowning<\/em>.<\/span> The Court also noticed that <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>no remorse has been shown by the Appellant<\/em> <em>at all<\/em><\/span> and given the nature of the crime it is unlikely that the Appellant, if set free, would not be capable of committing such a crime yet again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court, hence, confirmed the death sentence imposed on the appellant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MINORITY VIEW BY KHANNA, J<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Khanna, J said that he would uphold the appellant\u2019s conviction, he did not think that this case was fit for a death penalty and would, hence, commute it to imprisonment for life i.e. till his natural life with a stipulation that the appellant would not be entitled to remission under Sections 432 and 433 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noticing that the appellant had <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>confessed to his crime<\/em><\/span> and that confession is a ground to mitigate the sentence, Khanna, J said,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cto confess to such acts of crime and misdeeds before all and everyone, including the Magistrate could only mean that the appellant had felt shame, remorse and alienation from the society.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also noticed that the appellant had <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>retracted the last part of his confession<\/em><\/span> as to his involvement in sexual assault, rape and throwing the children in the canal and said that the retraction does, however, substantially reiterate and accept the first portion of the confession, including his presence in the van, but states that the appellant had not raped the girl and had remained standing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe retraction by itself, I would observe, should not be treated as absence of remorse or repentance, albeit an afterthought or on advice propelled by fear that the appellant in view of his admission may face the gallows, and that the earlier confession made seeking forgiveness would be the cause of his death.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khanna, J also took note of the fact that <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>the appellant was 23 years of age<\/em><\/span> at the time of occurrence and he belongs to a poor family. The facts that<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em> he has aged parents<\/em><\/span> and is a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>first-time offender<\/em><\/span> were also taken into consideration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He, hence, held,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cthe present case does not fall under the category of \u2018rarest of rare\u2019 case i.e. there is no alternative but to impose death sentence. It would fall within the special category of cases, where the appellant should be directed to suffer sentence for life i.e. till his natural death, without remission\/commutation under Sections 432 and 433 Cr.P.C.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[Manoharan v. 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