The Business Standard reports:
'Examine probability of reforming toddler's murderer'
IANS | New Delhi April 18, 2014 Last
Updated at 20:44 IST
The Delhi High Court has asked the Delhi government to examine whether there is
any probability of reforming and rehabilitating a farmhouse guard who had raped
and killed a three-year-old girl.
The high court Thursday upheld the life sentence awarded by
a trial court to the 56-year-old guard.
The trial court had last July awarded the death sentence to
guard Bharat Singh for killing the child and a concurrent life term for raping
her. The victim died while she was being raped as her internal organs had come
out.
A special bench of Justice S. Muralidhar and Justice Mukta
Gupta directed the home department of the Delhi
government to appoint a Probation Officer (PO) to examine the chances of his
reformation after which the court will decide on the death sentence.
The court Thursday asked the government to file the report
in a sealed cover within 10 weeks and posted the matter for July 11.
The girl April 10, 2011 was returning to her house in
Kapashera in southwest Delhi
when she strayed towards the farmhouse. The girl was called inside by Bharat
Singh, who was alone on duty, and was raped by him, the prosecution had said.
The high court asked the government to examine the
probability of whether the accused would commit criminal acts of violence or
would constitute a continuing threat to society and probability of his
reformation and rehabilitation.
It asked the PO to enquire
about his conduct in prison from the jail administration and also ask from his
family and locals regarding his behavioural traits.
It also asked the PO to
consult and seek specific inputs from two professionals in the fields of
clinical psychology and sociology.
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