A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad district on Friday sentenced a 24-year-old man to death for killing his one-and-a-half-year-old nephew by repeatedly hitting him on the ground after the child’s mother rejected his marriage proposal.
District and Sessions Judge Babu Sarang convicted Jitendra Pathak alias Viraj in the case on Thursday and sentenced him to death with a penalty of Rs. $50,000 after a day.
According to Aditya Lange, SSP Firozabad, Viraj killed his nephew Aarav on May 30 by repeatedly hitting him on the ground in a lane in Yadav Colony in Shekohabad after his sister-in-law Rati rejected his marriage proposal. Later, he also carried the child’s body on his shoulder.
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He was arrested on the same day. During the investigation, he told the police that he wanted to marry his brother’s wife and saw their son as an obstacle to his plans.
The prosecution presented thirteen witnesses, while the defense presented only one witness.
The judge said in his order: “The fear that has been created in the society can only be removed by meting out severe punishment to the accused. Otherwise, the society will remain in fear that such a brutal murder will end with a simple punishment.”
“The incident is not only about killing an innocent child, it also creates a void in the life of mother Rati and the father as well. The way the accused carried out the incident, hitting the child on the road not once but several times and checking whether the child was dead, is an extremely heinous, heinous, unprovoked, cold-blooded and brutal murder,” he added.
