New Delhi: Pronouncing four men guilty of raping and murder the 23-year-old physiotherapy trainee in December last, the judge today said they had murdered a "helpless victim". He also called it a planned act with the intention of causing death. "I convict all of the accused. They have been found guilty of gang rape, unnatural offences, destruction of evidence and for committing the murder of the helpless victim," said the judge to a crowded courtroom, as a larger crowd of national and international media waited outside the fast track court in Saket, south Delhi. In his 237-page order, the judge commented at length on the brutality of the crime that outraged the nation. "The manner in which (iron) rods were used and the injury on the body of victims rules out the possibility that these accused brought these rods only to overpower the girl," he said, "the act of inserting the rod and pulling out her internal organ after the gang-rape cannot be seen as only to facilitate the gang-rape...rather it make the act of pulling out the internal organ of the victim to kill her an intentional act." "Besides causing external bodily harm, they inserted the rod repeatedly and pulled out an internal vital organ by hand - all these circumstances made the act of the accused an intentional one done with sole intention of causing death." The girl had been violated so badly with an iron rod that her internal organs were badly damaged. Then she and her friend were thrown onto the road, naked and bleeding, an act which the judge said had been done with the intention of killing them. "18 internal injuries to several organs make these an act done with the certainty of causing death...there were no mitigating circumstances for committing this inhuman and brutal attack on the victim," said the judge. The men will be sentenced tomorrow.
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 05:08:01 +0000
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