Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Kamini Lau said the convict should be "hanged till he is dead" as there is only one sentence for a person convicted for raping and killing a child.
"Like a hungry vulture and a starving hound waiting for its kill, the convict on seeing the child pounces upon her and takes her to the portion at the back of the NDPL office i.E. the switch gear room where none is present.
"It is there that he fulfills his hunger for sex and defiles the body of the hapless and helpless child by brutally raping her to satisfy his carnal desire, a small harmless child whose body is yet not developed so as to be even being capable of inviting any body's lustful eyes," the court said.
Sanjay Kumar Valmiki, a resident of Haiderpur in North Delhi, had raped and murdered the minor last year in NDPL office here when the child had gone there in search of water.
The matter came to light when victim's decomposed body was found from the NDPL office's switch gear room after two days.
While expressing anguish over occurrence of such heinous crime "in the country of Gautam Budha, Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindra Nath Tagore," the judge said a message should be sent to the society that the justice system in India has "zero tolerance" for those "who mess with children" and "a single moment of madness can lead them to gallows."
"In a country of Gautam Budha and Mahatma Gandhi governed by faith believing in sacredness of all living creatures, urging the avoidance of harm and violence and practicing Ahimsa, the convict without a moment of remorse and regret even for once committed 'Bal Hatya' (child murder) and it is hence that the case falls within the category of rarest of the rare cases," the judge said. (MORE)
