domestic helps gets death for murder

A domestic help was on Tuesday awarded death penalty by a Delhi court for slitting the throat of a four-year-old “defenceless” son of his employer after the victim and his sister tried to resist his attempt to rape their elder sibling.

Describing the act of 22-year-old Sanjay Dass “diabolic of superlative degree”, the court convicted him for murder, rape, attempt to murder and theft. It said his offence was of “rarest of rare” category that warrants capital punishment.

“I am of the view that the present case is rarest of rare. The convict had acted in a well-calculated manner. He committed murder of a four-year-old boy in a gruesome madness by slitting his throat.

He entered into mindless killing spree and attacked the 17-year-old and nine-year-old girls,” Additional Sessions Judge Babu Lal said.

The court said, “When life was withering away from the body of four-year-old and blood was splattered on whole of floor of bedroom, in that scene even, he did not desist from committing rape on the 17-year-old girl.”

It rejected Das’ plea for leniency on the ground that he was just 19 years old at the time of offence and that his employer forced him to have homosexual relations with him.

“The allegations levelled by the convict against the complainant are an afterthought,” the court said.

Das, a resident of Mudhubani in Bihar, filed several applications to plead guilty for the offences but the court dismissed them and preferred to conduct trial in the case.

Das, who was hired just five days before the incident, had brutally killed the boy, raped the girl and hurt her younger sibling with knife on October 19, 2006 and fled from the employer’s residence in Roop Nagar in north Delhi before being arrested from Hardwar a day later.