{"id":54907,"date":"2024-05-20T21:16:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T21:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/kerala-high-court-upholds-death-sentence-in-2016-dalit-law-student-rape-murder-case\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T21:16:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T21:16:54","slug":"kerala-high-court-upholds-death-sentence-in-2016-dalit-law-student-rape-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/kerala-high-court-upholds-death-sentence-in-2016-dalit-law-student-rape-murder-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala High Court upholds death sentence in 2016 Dalit law student rape-murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-110270203,imgsize-24360.cms?resize=1600,900&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Kerala High Court upholds death sentence in 2016 Dalit law student rape-murder case\" title=\"Kerala High Court upholds death sentence in 2016 Dalit law student rape-murder case\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"10\">The <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/kerala-high-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kerala High Court<\/a> on Monday upheld the <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/death-sentence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">death sentence<\/a> given by a sessions court to perpetrator, <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ameerul-islam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ameerul Islam<\/a>, in the <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016<\/a> rape and murder of a 30-year-old <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/dalit-law-student\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dalit law student<\/a> in the state.<!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=107107653potime:2-->A division bench of the high court upheld the death penalty, dismissing the appeal filed by the convict challenging the sessions court verdict. The confirmation of the capital punishment was also made based on the death sentence reference from the sessions court. <\/p>\n<p>Islam was charged with raping and murdering the woman at <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/perumbavoor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perumbavoor<\/a> on April 28, 2016. He brutally assaulted the woman, who hailed from a poor family, using sharp-edged weapons before murdering her at her house. <\/p>\n<p>In 2017, the <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ernakulam-principal-sessions-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ernakulam Principal Sessions court<\/a> awarded the death penalty to Islam, a <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/migrant-labourer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">migrant labourer<\/a> from Assam, for committing the murder. Islam was found guilty by the sessions court under various sections of the IPC, including 449 (house trespass to commit an offence punishable with death), 342 (punishment for wrongful confinement), 302 (murder), 376 (rape), and 376 (A) (causing death or causing the woman to be in a persistent vegetative state while committing rape). <\/p>\n<p>The <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/special-investigation-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Special Investigation Team<\/a> that probed the case used DNA technology and verification of call record details to prove Islam&#8217;s role in the crime. Islam, who had left Perumbavoor soon after committing the crime, was arrested from Kancheepuram in neighbouring Tamil Nadu, 50 days after he committed the gruesome crime. <\/p>\n<p>More than 100 police personnel questioned over 1,500 people in the case. Fingerprints of over 5,000 people were also examined by the SIT personnel, who went through over 20 lakh telephonic conversations before tracing Islam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/kerala-high-court-upholds-death-sentence-in-2016-dalit-law-student-rape-murder-case\/articleshow\/110270203.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kerala High Court on Monday upheld the death sentence given by a sessions court to perpetrator, Ameerul Islam, in the 2016 rape and murder of a 30-year-old Dalit law student in the state.A division bench of the high court upheld the death penalty, dismissing the appeal filed by the convict challenging the sessions court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-110270203,imgsize-24360.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[44364,54270,1287,1625,43718,54269,1860,44365,54272,437,2982,54267,54274,3444,54273,54271,54268,54275,1756,40075,2069,22483],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54909,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54907\/revisions\/54909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}