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A fast-track court in Nashik has sentenced Vijay Sanjay Khairnar to death for the 2025 rape and murder of a four-year-old girl. The court described the act as a monstrous crime and observed that showing leniency would undermine public confidence in the justice system.
A Mysuru POCSO special court sentenced 32-year-old Karthik to death on 18 October 2026 for the kidnapping, rape, and murder of a nine-year-old balloon seller during the 2025 Mysuru Dasara festival. The court delivered this verdict based on CCTV and digital evidence confirming the convict had brutally stabbed the victim 27 times.
On 29 June 2026, a Pune POCSO court sentenced 65-year-old Bhimrao Kamble to death for the rape and murder of a three-year-old girl in Nasrapur. Characterizing the crime as rarest of the rare, the court noted that even the death penalty was inadequate following a trial based on a 1,100-page chargesheet filed on 16 May 2026.
A district court in Koppal sentenced three men to death on 16 February 2026 for the 2025 gang rape of an Israeli tourist and an Indian woman, and the murder of a tourist guide in Hampi. The court described the crimes as controlled savagery in its verdict delivered on 16 February 2026.
The Supreme Court set aside the death penalty imposed on a convict for the 2016 sexual assault and murder of a four-year-old boy. The court commuted the sentence, citing procedural and legal considerations.
The Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for a man convicted of kidnapping, raping, and murdering a seven-year-old physically and mentally challenged girl in Rajasthan.
An Azamgarh court sentenced a man to death for the murder of three members of a family, including a four-month-old infant, following a sexual assault.
In the Kathua case concerning the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl, the District and Sessions Court convicted six of the seven accused on 10 June 2019. On the same date, three of the convicted individuals were sentenced to life imprisonment, while the other three were sentenced to five years of imprisonment.
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