The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday confirmed the death sentence awarded to a schoolteacher for raping a four-year-old girl in Satna district.
Confirming the death penalty of the convict, Mahendra Singh Gond, a division bench of justices P K Jaiswal and Anjuli Palo said the court should impose a punishment befitting the crime.
Gond, a schoolteacher, was convicted and sentenced to death by a trial court in Satna district in September last year, government advocate Brahmadatt Singh said.
The convict had appealed against the trial court judgment in the high court.
The bench observed, "In the present scenario, where such crimes are continuously increasing, reformative ideas are totally ineffective.
"Justice demands that the court should impose a punishment befitting the crime so that it reflects the public abhorrence of the crime."
It further said, "It could not be conceived from a person, who is performing the pious duty of a teacher, who is expected to nurture the character and morality in the children of the nation, to commit such kind of a heinous act which is tantamount to moral turpitude."
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