Special Judge (POCSO) of Bokaro court, Ranjit Kumar, awarded life imprisonment to Chhotu Karmakar for killing a teen-aged girl after rape. The court also fined Rs 60,000 under different sections of IPC to him, informed SK Jha Advocate Bokaro Court.
On 24 November 2018, the body of a seven-year-old girl was found from an under construction house at Karkatta villager under Bangaria The outpost of Chandankiyari police station in Bokaro district. She was raped before being murdered, he said.
Based on the complaint received from the victim’s mother, police lodged a complaint and arrested one of his relative Chhotu Karmakar (30) in this connection. The mother of the deceased lodged a complaint alleging that Chhotu killed her daughter, informed Jha.
The girl was playing in the village in the evening, but she did not return back home by night. We searched the locality and also asked others but we could not find her said a villager.
Later we have started a search again and found her half necked body, smeared with blood in a nearby under construction house, stated by a villager in the complaint filed at the police station.