Man gets death for raping minor daughter

Mahila court judge A Kayal Vizhi awarded him double life imprisonment for rape under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POSCO) Act and IPC section 364 (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder) besides imposing a fine of Rs 15,000. 

According to the prosecution, accused M Mari (51), father of 8 children and an alcoholic, raped his youngest daughter on a beach at Karaiyur in Rameswaram, murdered her and then flung her body into the sea. 

As her body was washed ashore, police sent it for post-mortem. Results revealed that she had been raped and murdered. Following a quarrel, Mari’s wife had left him and gone to her first daughter’s house with the other children. She had left her youngest daughter at a relative’s house. 

The prosecution said the accused had gone to the relative’s house and forced them to hand over the girl to him. He took her to the beach, raped and murdered her on April 23, 2013, the prosecution said. Condemning Mari’s act as ‘abominable and outrageous’, the judge sentenced him to death.