The convict in the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl at Aluva in Kerala earlier this year received capital punishment because the police and the prosecution were able to prove it as a rarest of rare case, said Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Law and Order, M.R. Ajithkumar.
He was talking to media outside the Additional District Sessions Court for trying atrocities against women and children in Ernakulam shortly after Special Judge K. Soman awarded death sentence to the convict Asafak Alam, 29, of Bihar on November 14, 2023.
What proved most crucial leading to the successful culmination of the case was the speedy arrest of the accused within six hours after the missing of the victim was reported. If he was not arrested then, the accused might have fled and the case would have remained unresolved, said Mr. Ajith Kumar.
