Freed from jail, man rapes, murders 9-year-old girl

[Tiger80]

PUNE/NASHIK: A 32-year-old man, who had been acquitted last year by the high court of all charges in the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl at Sinnar in Nashik district in 2003, was arrested on Friday for allegedly committing a similar crime the rape and murder of another nine-year-old girl at Shirdi in Ahmednagar district. The man, Sunil alias Pappu Suresh Salve, had also been arrested in three more similar cases in 2002. It wasn't known whether those three cases involved minor girls. Speaking to TOI, inspector Datta Pawar of the Shirdi police, who is investigating the Shirdi case, said Salve kidnapped the girl on December 28 last year. "After raping and killing her near the Sainagar railway station in Shirdi, he buried the body. After his arrest, we exhumed the girl's body and conducted post-mortem." Pawar said in the Sinnar case, Salve, who is from Nashik, was given death sentence by the Nashik district court. "However, the high court subsequently acquitted him. He was released from the Nashik central jail on May 28, 2012, after completing his sentences in the earlier cases. Since then, he has been living in Shirdi with his wife and two children," he said. Pawar said Salve and the girl lived in the same locality in Shirdi. "On December 28, when the girl didn't return home from school, her parents began searching for her and Salve helped them in the search. While investigating the case, another girl told her parents that she had seen the victim with Salve in the afternoon of December 28," Pawar said. When Salve heard this, he fled Shirdi. Police teams were formed to track down Salve. On Friday, police learnt that Salve had called up his wife and asked her to come to Manmad railway station. "We laid a trap and nabbed him. During interrogation, he admitted to having raped and murdered the girl," he said. Buried girl's body Pawar said Salve revealed that the girl was going to school when he asked her to come with him to find his 12-year-old son. "As the girl knew Salve, she went with him. He took her to a secluded place near the railway station and raped and murdered her. He buried the body and returned home," he said. Salve sold photo frames outside the Shirdi temple. He was produced in court on Saturday and remanded to police custody till January 17. "We are probing whether he has committed any other crimes after being released from jail in May last year," Pawar said. Sunita Salunkhe-Thakre, additional superintendent of police (Ahmednagar), confirmed that the high court had acquitted Salve in the Sinnar case. She said in 2002, three similar cases were registered against Salve by Ambad and Nashik road police stations. "In the case registered by the Ambad police, Salve was charged with kidnapping and rape and sentenced to six years' rigorous imprisonment. In the two cases under the Nashik Road police station, he was sentenced to seven years' rigorous imprisonment for kidnap, rape and murder in one, but acquitted of kidnap and rape in the other," she said. An organization working for nomadic tribes blocked roads in Shirdi on Saturday to protest against the crime. State agriculture minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil met the parents of the victim and announced a financial assistance of Rs 1 lakh. Inspector general (special) Dhananjay Kamlakar of Nashik Range said police superintendents have been told to examine judgments in such cases before deciding on the legal course of action to be taken. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Freed-from-jail-man-rapes-murders-9-year-old-girl/articleshow/18013803.cms

Where are all theories that a rapist goes through worst of torture in jail? as he was given death sentence by district court

[beetle]

Our laws are too soft on the criminals.People doing serious crimes comes out on parole easily....chief ministers release prisoners on national days like they are releasing some welfare scheme for people. The person who ordered parole for this guy should be held responsible .

[surajmal]

For people in the bottom (economically) strata of society, life in jail is actually better than life outside. I'm sure this shithead was eager to go back in the can and committing a heinous crime is the fastest ticket.

[Magneto]

Apparently, paedophilia is an incurable disease. A paedophile will always come back to commit another crime. Medical castration is the only solution to paedophile. Paedophiles world over are guilty of multiple murders and heinous crimes ... they apparently cannot control their urge.

[Clarke]

I don't understand the dislike for capital punishment, there's just too much living scum on the planet that needs to be eliminated.

[beetle]

I don't understand the dislike for capital punishment' date=' there's just too much living scum on the planet that needs to be eliminated.[/quote'] +1

[DomainK]

Our laws are too soft on the criminals.People doing serious crimes comes out on parole easily....chief ministers release prisoners on national days like they are releasing some welfare scheme for people. The person who ordered parole for this guy should be held responsible .

Yes. There was a case where a man was harassing and girl and threatened her with dire consequences if she went to police. The girl went to police, the guy got arrested, got bail and threw acid on her face. He then got arrested again and got bail again and continues to harass the girl and her family. We have a bunch of idiots in law enforcement.

[Crookbond]

I don't understand the dislike for capital punishment' date=' there's just too much living scum on the planet that needs to be eliminated.[/quote'] To ask for capital punishment rather than take such opportunities to push for better systems would be barking down the wrong tree. There would be another "type of crime" like rape which will follow the same cycle. It is time to cut the case.

[Clarke]

To ask for capital punishment rather than take such opportunities to push for better systems would be barking down the wrong tree. There would be another "type of crime" like rape which will follow the same cycle. It is time to cut the case.

The better system shouldn't have acquittal for someone sent to the gallows for a truly heinous crime. The high court (and the SC followed by President) should reject such mercy requests. The overall system needs major reform for sure to speed up trials and petitions and reduce corruption, but there's always the demand for banning capital punishment from intelligent people and cases like this one imply where they are incorrect.

[Crookbond]

The better system shouldn't have acquittal for someone sent to the gallows for a truly heinous crime. The high court (and the SC followed by President) should reject such mercy requests. The overall system needs major reform for sure to speed up trials and petitions and reduce corruption, but there's always the demand for banning capital punishment from intelligent people and cases like this one imply where they are incorrect.

That's the point - right there. The better system should not allow acquittal for any heinous crime. Even if you put up a capital punishment on rape and the accused is acquitted there is no point in changing the length of punishment. Capital punishment does not improve the chance of an acquittal which is what you are fighting for and not the type of punishment. In fact, I would argue that making a proper legal system is many times more important than the type of punishment which is just a formal debate and can easily be adopted/reasoned out. An effective legal system requires much more planning and hassles - changing the type of punishment is a 'jugaadu' pacifying solution which the 'aam janta' would fall for and feel satisfied. It hardly improves the ground reality or changes the situation. I hope you understand where I'm coming from.