Indore: A man accused of raping and killing an infant baby in Madhya Pradesh was sentenced to death by an Indore sessions court on Saturday.
The court ended the 23-day trial by handing death to the accused under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
According to an NDTV report, the special public prosecutor urged the sessions court judge Varsha Sharma to treat the case as the "rarest of the rare" and award capital punishment to the accused.
Sharma said, "Such a small child who didn't know anything other than crying was treated inhumanly."
In April, the 21-year-old accused, Sunil Bheel, was spotted on a CCTV camera carrying the baby on his shoulder after committing the horrific crime. Bheel also killed her once he was done.
The blood-soaked body of the infant was recovered from the basement of a commercial building when a shopkeeper had gone there to open his shop.
The child's parents, balloon sellers, were sleeping on the street outside the Rajwada Fort in the city. The accused Sunil Bheel was known to the parents of the infant and was sleeping close to them, police had said.
