New Delhi: President Draupadi Murmu has rejected the mercy petition of a man convicted of raping and stoning a four-year-old girl to death in Maharashtra in 2008.
The Supreme Court on May 3, 2017 dismissed the review petition of Vasant Sampat Dupare (then 55 years) and sentenced him to death.
The President’s Secretariat had received a recommendation in this matter from the Union Home Ministry on March 28 this year.
“The mercy petition was rejected by the President (on April 10),” said a statement on the mercy petition status updated on April 28, 2023, by the President’s Secretariat.
The top court had said in 2017 that “the atrocious circumstances and barbaric manner in which the four-year-old child was murdered clearly outweigh the mitigating circumstances”.
It had on November 26, 2014 upheld the judgment of the trial court as well as the Bombay High Court awarding death sentence to Dupare, a resident of Maharashtra, in 2008. rape And murder case,
The top court had on July 14, 2016 agreed to consider the plea of Dupare, who claimed that he was not given a fair opportunity to present his arguments in the trial court which had awarded him the death sentence.
While upholding the death sentence awarded to the convict, the apex court had said that the rape of the minor girl was a “monstrous burial of her dignity in darkness”. The court had noted the sequence of events in the case and said that the accused, who was a neighbour, hypnotized the girl and raped her and then thrashed her to death with two heavy stones.
The Supreme Court on May 3, 2017 dismissed the review petition of Vasant Sampat Dupare (then 55 years) and sentenced him to death.
The President’s Secretariat had received a recommendation in this matter from the Union Home Ministry on March 28 this year.
“The mercy petition was rejected by the President (on April 10),” said a statement on the mercy petition status updated on April 28, 2023, by the President’s Secretariat.
The top court had said in 2017 that “the atrocious circumstances and barbaric manner in which the four-year-old child was murdered clearly outweigh the mitigating circumstances”.
It had on November 26, 2014 upheld the judgment of the trial court as well as the Bombay High Court awarding death sentence to Dupare, a resident of Maharashtra, in 2008. rape And murder case,
The top court had on July 14, 2016 agreed to consider the plea of Dupare, who claimed that he was not given a fair opportunity to present his arguments in the trial court which had awarded him the death sentence.
While upholding the death sentence awarded to the convict, the apex court had said that the rape of the minor girl was a “monstrous burial of her dignity in darkness”. The court had noted the sequence of events in the case and said that the accused, who was a neighbour, hypnotized the girl and raped her and then thrashed her to death with two heavy stones.