Judgment

Arijit Pasayat, J.—Leave granted.

2. One Vishakha @ Akansha (hereinafter referred to as the ‘victim’) who had not even seen six summers in her life lost her life on account of bestial acts of the respondent Satish (hereinafter referred to as the ‘accused’) who allegedly raped her and thereafter murdered her. When the victim went out to school on 16.8.2001, her parents would have never thought in their widest dreams that she would not come back home and would fall victim to the barbaric and inhuman acts of the respondent. Rape is one of the most depraved acts. The iniquitous flagitious act becomes abonimal when the victim is a child. The diabolic act reaches the lowest level of humanity when the rape is followed by brutal murder.

3. In a nutshell the accused faced trial in the following backdrop.

On 16.8.2001 the victim who was studying in Sarvodya Public School had gone to school and did not return at the usual time. On the next day morning her dead body was found in the Sugarcane field of one Moolchand around 6.00 a.m. She was lying in a dead condition and blood was oozing from her private parts and there were marks of pressing on her neck. Report was lodged at the nearly Pol