A fast-track court in North Tripura yesterday granted death sentence to a 27-years-old youth convicted for raping and murdering a minor girl last year under section 302 of Indian Panel Code. The convicted Sanjoy Tanti had kidnapped six years old girl of Maheshpur tea estate under Kadamtala police station of Dharmanagar on September 24 last year. The convicted stated that he had raped the girl and then dumped her into the jungle. Three days after, police recovered the mutilated body of the girl.
Police found that soon after recovery of the body Sanjoy Tanti was absconding and later he was arrested from the nearby village. During the investigation, he confessed the crime and had detailed the sequence of the incident. The court, however, deposited the witnesses of 21 persons and examining various evidence. The investigating officer Apu Pal told the court that investigation revealed that Sanjoy had allured the girl of his neighbourhood on the day in the afternoon when she was playing with others. He took her into a nearby deserted place and raped her. The girl was died on the spot and to reconfirm the death he strangulated her.
Till the evening when the girl did not return home, the parents and neighbour including Sanjoy had searched the village and tea garden but could not find her. At night missing dairy was registered with a local police station and two days after based on the information from the locals the body was recovered from the jungle. Meantime, the villagers had noticed that Sanjoy was missing from the village and reported to the police. Police had launched an investigation and came to know that the victim was last seen with Sanjoy. Within two days of the recovery, police arrested Sanjoy from a nearby locality in April this year police submitted charge sheet against him in the court. After the subsequent trail, the special court gave him capital punishment. (UNI)
