NAGAON, Jan 25 - The Hojai District and Sessions Court on Friday pronounced capital punishment as well as seven years imprisonment and Rs 20,000 penalty on one Krishna Rajgour, in connection with a murder and rape case of a seven-year-old minor girl in 2017 at Lumding in Hojai district.
According to sources, Krishna alias Sagar was staying as a servant at a local resident�s house at No. 2 Sashtigaon village under Lumding police station and on February 5, 2017 in the absence of the family members, he took out the seven-year-old daughter of his landlord to Lumding market for a walk and killed her after raping her. He packed the body of the deceased with a blanket and threw it away in a dense forest at Lumding.
Lumding Police later registered a case under Section 201, 302 and 363 and started investigation and on March 11, 2017 police apprehended him from Dimapur in Nagaland. Subsequently, on the basis of his statement, police on March 14 recovered the body of the victim from the forest.
