“Mumbai: 24-year-old transgender person sentenced to death for rape and murder of infant”, Indian Express, February 28, 2024:“A SPECIAL court on Tuesday sentenced to death a transgender person for the rape and murder of a three-month-old girl in 2021, after her family expressed their inability to pay money and give gifts for blessing the newborn child. The court found the 24-year-old guilty on charges including rape, murder, kidnapping, destruction of evidence of the Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, while it acquitted a co-accused, who was also booked on the same charges, for lack of evidence. The court said that the crime was pre-planned and would “send a chill down the spine of every parent of a girl child, especially in a poor vicinity”.

Source: Indian Express March 05, 2024 06:31 UTC