Pune 3-year-old rape case: Why judge refused to consider 65-year-old convict’s age before death sentence
Nearly two months after the rape and murder of a three-year-old girl in Pune district’s Nasrapur village sent shock waves across Maharashtra, a special Pune court on Monday gave a death penalty to a 65-year-old man. The details of the incident, which occurred on May 1, are harrowing. (Praful Gangurde/HT\representational image) The capital punishment was pronounced by Additional Judge (special judge) S R Salunkhe. The judge, categorizing the case as the “rarest of the rare,” made it clear that the brutality of the crime left no room for leniency, news agency PTI reported. A pattern of “total depravity” The incident took place on May 1. The accused, Kamble lured the three-year-old child with a promise of snacks and the excitement of seeing a newborn calf. Also read | 65-year-old convicted in Nasrapur child rape, murder He led her to a secluded shed near a cattle barn where he subjected her to sexual and unnatural assault. To cover his tracks, he murdered her by gagging her and inflicting severe chest injuries. Judge Salunkhe observed that the …








