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A 33-year-old man, earlier arrested for rape and execution of a insignificant boy, was sentences to acquisition beingness imprisonment by the Fast Track Special Court for proceedings and disposal of rape and POCSO cases astatine Rajendranagar connected Tuesday (December 30, 2025). The tribunal besides imposed a good of ₹21,000 connected the accused.
The convict, Vadla Santhosh, was arrested by the Moinabad constabulary successful 2016 nether the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act successful transportation with the abduction, intersexual battle and execution of the nine-year-old victim.
According to the police, the unfortunate went retired to play successful the day of December 4, 2016, and failed to instrumentality home. His parent lodged a ailment with the Moinabad police. A lawsuit of a missing kid was initially registered and an probe was taken up.
During the people of investigation, the constabulary discovered the boy’s assemblage wrong a h2o tank. Following the recovery, the lawsuit was altered to see charges of kidnapping for ransom, unnatural offence, murder, causing disappearance of grounds and aggravated penetrative intersexual battle nether the POCSO Act.
Police arrested Vadla Santhosh connected December 5, 2016, and remanded him to judicial custody. A chargesheet was subsequently filed aft investigators collected worldly grounds linking him to the crime.
During the trial, the prosecution examined witnesses and placed documentary and worldly grounds earlier the court. After completion of the proceedings, the tribunal convicted the accused and awarded beingness imprisonment for execution and kidnapping, on with abstracted rigorous imprisonment presumption for offences nether Section 377 of the IPC, provisions of the POCSO Act and for causing disappearance of evidence.
