death penalty news August 18, 2004
INDIA: Another Gets Death Penalty For Rrape-Murder Of Minor Barely few days after Dhananjoy Chatterjee was hanged for raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl, Hetal Parekh, in Kolkata in 1990, a sessions court in Ahmedabad on Wednesday sentenced to death a 34-year-old man for raping and killing a minor. While handing out the death sentence, Judge Z K Sayed said that the crime was more heinous than the one for which Dhananjoy was hanged, as the victim in the latest case was eight years younger. In the instant case, accused Kishen Marwari on May 27, 2003 lured Gunni Solanki with the promise of buying her ice-candy. Instead, he took her to an isolated spot and allegedly raped and killed her. After murdering her, Marwari then cut of Gunni's feet, took the anklets and sold them in the market. The judge, while giving his verdict, also took into consideration that he had cut of the girl's feet after murdering her. Wednesday's verdict came five days after Dhananjoy Chatterjee, sentenced to death for raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl in Kolkata in 1990, was hanged. Dhananjoy was sentenced to death for raping and murdering Hetal Parekh in her house in Bhowanipore on March 5, 1990. Human rights organisation Manab Adhikar Surakha Manch and some students of the Bishop's College held a vigil outside the Alipore jail, where the execution took place. (source: indolink.com)
