Ranchi: A Ranchi CBI court on Saturday awarded the death penalty to a man who had raped an engineering student and later burnt her to death in the state capital in 2016.
Special CBI court of AK Mishra pronounced the death penalty to Rahul alias Rocky on Saturday. He was convicted by the CBI court on Friday.
Rahul, a resident of Bihar’s Nalanda district, has been convicted of raping a B.Tech student from a college on December 15, 2016, at the Buty colony in Ranchi. Rahul poured Mobil oil on her face and later burnt her to death. The state police and CID failed to crack the case. The case was later handed over to CBI.
The CBI lodged FIR on March 28, 2018, and started an investigation. Rahul was taken into custody from Lucknow jail and was produced in CBI court on June 22, 2019.
During the investigation, CBI found that Rahul was staying at a house close to a temple in the Buty colony and he was missing following the incident.
Police reached Rahul’s village and took blood samples of his parents. The DNA test was carried out and the blood samples of Rahul’s parents were matched with the victim’s samples. The samples were positive.
CBI also found that Rahul was a habitual offender and he had been in Lucknow jail in connection with the rape.
Rahul, an auto-rickshaw driver, had come to Ranchi in 2016. He used to keep track of the girl moving alone during the night. After finding the victim alone in her house, Rahul broke into the house and raped the girl and later burnt her to death.
