Summary:
During interrogation, Khan confessed of committing the crime. It was later found that the girl was raped before murder.During investigation, police found out that the girl was last seen on January 1, 2016 with Khan, who was a driver by profession, on his motorcycle.He was later arrested from Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh on January 5, 2016. Dehradun: A special POCSO court on Wednesday awarded death penalty to a man for raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl in Dehradun district in January 2016.The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) judge, Rama Pandey, held Azhar Khan guilty and slapped a fine of Rs 90,000.Khan was convicted under section 376 (rape), 302 (murder) of IPC and relevant sections of POCSO Act.The minor girl’s body, who was studying in class 9, was found hanging from a road side tree, about 157 km from Dehradun..