Three persons were awarded capital punishment on Thursday for abduction, rape and murder of a minor and dumping her body into a septic tank to destroy evidence five years ago.
Rintu Shur, the judge of the Jalpaiguri special Pocso court, announced the sentence.
Sources said that the incident took place on August 10, 2020, in Rajganj area of Jalpaiguri district.
The victim was a Class X student of a madrasa.
The day after the incident, the student's family, who did not know that the girl had been raped and murdered by then, had filed a missing complaint with Rajganj police.
Twelve days after her disappearance, during the course of the investigation, the student's body was recovered from an under-construction septic tank, located around 10km from her home.
The police investigated the incident and eventually arrested three youths, Rahman Ali, Jamirul Haque and Tamirul Haque.
Debashis Dutta, public prosecutor, said that the ages of the accused are between 19 to 21 now.
The case came to trial. Twenty-seven persons testified in the case.
“The deceased girl was a student of Class X studying at a madrasa. After abducting her, the accused repeatedly raped her in different places. Finally, she was strangled to death with a shirt worn by one of the accused. After the murder, the girl's body was taken on a bike and dumped in a septic tank,” Dutta said.