Scientific evidence helps HC convict man in Coimbatore rape and murder case
The Hindu
Judges direct DGP to institute a DIG-level inquiry to punish officers responsible for serious gaffes
Despite several gaffes made by the police in investigating the rape-cum-murder of a six-year-old girl in a village near Thadagam in Coimbatore district during the 2019 Parliament election campaign, the Madras High Court relied upon the scientific evidence to confirm the conviction imposed on a 36-year-old aluminium fabricator K. Santhoshkumar. The court, however, commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment and ordered that the imprisonment should not be commuted or remitted for 25 years. Justices P.N. Prakash and V. Sivagnanam upheld a direction given by trial judge S. Radhika to the police to conduct further investigation in the case to find out the second adult whose semen and spermatozoa were also found in oral and cervical swabs and smears taken from the body of the victim.
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