The special court that tried the Aluva child rape and murder case termed it as a case belonging to the ‘rarest of rare’ category to award the death penalty to the accused Asafak Alam.
The prosecution could successfully establish the guilt of the accused on oral, documentary, digital, scientific and circumstantial evidence. Though there were no eyewitnesses to the commission of rape and murder by the accused, the DNA report connected the accused with the alleged offences. There were no mitigating circumstances that could have benefited the convict in the case, the court held.
The judge felt that the convict would commit many graver offences and evolve as a threat to society, especially minor girl children, if let free. The act of committing multiple rape on a five-year-old girl has to be considered as a serious and grave offence requiring adequate sentence proportionate to its gravity, the court felt.
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