New Delhi: On Friday, The Supreme Court stayed the execution of a rape convict school teacher from Madhya Pradesh who was given death sentence for brutalising his four-year-old student who died of severe injuries. The death sentence to the criminal, Mahendra Singh Gond, was given by a district court in Madhya Pradesh as his ghastly crime was seen as a ‘rarest of rare’ instance, earning him the gallows as the first man to be executed under the new law of death penalty for child rapists.
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the execution order of the rapist and would not be hanged for the time being. Gond is slated to be hanged till death on March 2 and he had moved the apex court seeking a respite in the sentence. Gond was to be executed in Jabalpur jail on March 2 for the crime of kidnaping and raping the victim on June 30, 2018. The brutality of the crime had shocked the entire country and police had arrested the criminal soon after the incident was reported.
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In this incident, the perpetrator of the crime had dumped the child after raping and brutalising her in a jungle after he thought that she was dead. The braveheart survived the ordeal and was found by her family who admitted her to a hospital. Such violent was the nature of her rape that she had to be airlifted to AIIMS for an operation to align her intestines.
The district court had awarded death sentence to the rapist after the survivor's statement which was recorded through video conferencing.
