This may come to a shocker to many, a Delhi court has sentenced a 21 year old guy to 32 year imprisonment for kidnapping and raping a one year old child after entering her house to commit theft.  Additional sessions judge Kamini Lau jailed 21-year-old Uday Kumar Yadav observing that he is a "predatory pedophile" and a "menace" to the society as he had not spared even a one-year-old.

The court sentenced Yadav to seven years in jail for kidnapping the toddler and life imprisonment for raping her. It also imposed a five-year jail term for stealing a mobile phone from the house. The court has ordered that the convict should not be given any remission in his sentence until he spends at least 20 years of the life term in jail.

The court also praised the investigating officers who had cracked the case on the basis of electronic surveillance and forensic evidence. It said, "It would have been difficult to nab the culprit had it not been for the excellent work done by the initial investigating officers who had cracked this case on the basis of electronic surveillance and analysis of data while the forensics (DNA finger printing) came to the aid of the investigating agencies as a handy tool later."

The prosecution had said Yadav had entered the jhuggi, in which the child lived with her parents, on the night on September 24 last year to commit theft. While stepping out of the house with the phone, he also picked up the toddler, who was sleeping with her parents, took her to a nearby park and raped her.
 
The judge also asked the city government to pay a compensation of Rs.1 lakh to the family of the victim for her welfare and rehabilitation. It also imposed a fine of Rs.70,000 on Yadav saying that, if realized, the amount should be given to the victim. The accused seemed to show no remorse however.

(Aw-Jyotishman)