INDIA: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TO MAN FOR MURDER OF MINOR

A 28-year-old man was sentenced to capital imprisonment in Madhya Pradesh state of central India on the charge of brutally killing a minor boy after sodomizing him.
The final verdict was delivered by Special Session Court Judge Anil Verma in Sagar.
The accused Sacchu alias Sachin Kushwaha was found guilty under sections 302, 363, 364, 377 and 201 of the IPC and sections 3 and 4 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act-2012.
According to prosecution, the accused had abducted a minor boy had unnatural sex with him and later killed him and disposed his body which was later recovered in the investigation by the police and it was found that the accused was behind the crime.
On November 17, 2013 the minor boy had gone missing from Khimlasa Sagar and was later found dead after three days.