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President Droupadi Murmu has rejected the mercy petition of Ravi Ashok Ghumare, who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and sidesplitting a two-year-old miss successful Maharashtra successful 2012, officials said connected Sunday (December 14, 2025).
This is the 3rd mercy plea rejected by the President since she assumed bureau connected July 25, 2022. According to the presumption of mercy petitions disclosed by Rashtrapati Bhavan, Ghumare’s plea was rejected connected November 6.
The Supreme Court, connected October 3, 2019, affirmed the decease condemnation awarded to Ghumare, saying that helium had nary power implicit his "carnal desires" and had surpassed each natural, societal and ineligible limits conscionable to satiate his intersexual hunger.
In its verdict, a three-judge seat comprising Justice Surya Kant (now Chief Justice of India), by a bulk verdict of 2:1, said the antheral had "ruthlessly finished" a beingness which was yet to bloom and his enactment of committing unnatural offence with the two-year-old exhibits "a soiled and perverted mind, showcasing a horrifying communicative of brutality".
"Having said that, it whitethorn beryllium seen that the unfortunate was hardly a two-year-old babe whom the appellant (Ravi) kidnapped and seemingly kept connected assaulting for implicit 4 to 5 hours till she breathed her last.”
"The appellant, who had nary power implicit his carnal desires, surpassed each natural, societal and ineligible limits conscionable to satiate his intersexual hunger. He ruthlessly finished a beingness which was yet to bloom," Justice Surya Kant had said, portion penning the verdict for himself and (now retired) Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman.
President Droupadi Murmu rejects mercy petition of antheral convicted for raping, sidesplitting 4-year-old girl
The appellant, alternatively of showing fatherly love, affection and extortion to the kid against the evils of society, made her the unfortunate of lust, the bulk verdict said.
"It’s a lawsuit wherever spot has been betrayed, and societal values are impaired. The unnatural enactment with a two-year-old toddler exhibits a soiled and perverted mind, showcasing a horrifying communicative of brutality," the verdict said.
According to the prosecution, the incidental took spot connected March 6, 2012, successful Indiranagar locality of Maharashtra's Jalna city. Ghumare had lured the unfortunate with a chocolate.
The proceedings tribunal had convicted him and awarded the decease punishment connected September 16, 2015. His decease condemnation was upheld by the Bombay High Court successful January 2016.
