Domestic help given death sentence for killing child

New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) A city court Tuesday awarded death sentence to a domestic help for murdering his employer's four-year-old son who resisted his attempt to rape his teenaged sister in 2006.

Additional Sessions Judge Babu Lal awarded death penalty to Sanjay Das, a native of Bihar, after holding him guilty under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

'I award you death sentence for murdering a four-year-old child in a gruesome and heinous manner,' the court said in its order.

The court had convicted him under section 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder), 376 (rape) and 392 (robbery) of the IPC.

The court also held Das, who is in his early 20s, guilty of raping his employer's 17-year-old daughter and imposed a fine of Rs.3,500 on him.

The case dates back to Oct 19, 2006, when Das stabbed the boy to death for resisting his attempt to rape his sister.

Das had been employed by Ramesh Aggarwal, a resident of Roop Nagar in north Delhi, just three days before the incident. After raping the girl and killing the boy, he fled the house.

He was arrested from Haridwar a day after the incident.

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