AMN / SHIMLA
A Himachal Pradesh court Wednesday gave the death penalty to three convicts in the sensational kidnapping and murder case of a four-year-old boy in 2014.
Shimla Sessions Judge Virender Singh pronounced the death sentence for these convicts for killing the boy, named Yug.
Yug’s father Vinod Kumar Gupta welcomed the judgment stating that the killing was rarest of the rare case.
The boy was abducted from the busy Ram Bazar area of the Himachal Pradesh capital on June 14, 2014, and killed after seven days even before a ransom call was made.
His skeletal remains were recovered from a water tank of the Shimla Municipal Corporation in Kelston area on August 21, 2016, after the probe was handed over to the CID.
Yug’s killing had sent shocked-waves across Shimla and enraged residents took out processions and candle marches to express their rage.
The sessions judge had convicted all the three accused on August 6.