Mangaluru court docket sentences 51 year-old man to demise for homicide, rape of minor woman

An further district and classes court-cum-fast observe court docket to strive POCSO circumstances in Mangaluru sentenced a 51 year-old man native of Belagavi district to demise and life imprisonment after discovering him responsible of raping and murdering a 13 year-old woman in Mangaluru.

Additional District and Sessions Judge (Fast Track Court II) Ok.S. Maanu handed the order of conviction and sentence on September 10, 2025 towards Fakeerappa Hanumappa Madara, a local of Hanchinal village, Savadatti Taluk. He was charged with rape and homicide of the sufferer who was staying in a rented home together with her family members at Jokatte in Panambur Police limits on August 6, 2024.

Panambur Police had registered circumstances below Sections 103(1) and 332(a) homicide and legal tresspass below the Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita and Section 4(2) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, for the offence of penetrative sexual assault on a toddler beneath 16 years towards the accused. He was below judicial custody since then.

While Madara was sentenced to demise for the offence of homicide, life imprisonment was awarded for the offence of penetrative sexual assault. “Both the sentences ought to run concurrently,” the court docket stated. Besides imposing a superb of ₹1 lakh on the accused to paid to the sufferer’s mother and father, the court docket additionally directed the district authorized companies authority to pay ₹4 lakh compensation to the household below Section 135 of BNS learn with Karnataka Victim Compensation Scheme 2011 and Rule 7 of the POCSO Rules, 2012.

Convict Madara, who was staying close to the home of sufferer’s relative in Jokatte, had forcefully entered the home on August 6, 2024, when her family members have been away and assaulted her sexually. A local of Belagavi, the woman was finding out in Class 7 in a authorities residential faculty in Mangaluru. Her mom had taken her house for treating an harm sustained within the faculty and left her again at her uncle’s residence in Jokatte to affix the varsity after Nagara Panchami vacation.

The prosecution was launched by Panambur Police Inspector Mohammed Saleem Abbas, who filed the cost sheet. Police Sub Inspectors Ok.T. Shreekala and Jnanashekhar had carried out the probe whereas public prosecutor Sahanadevi carried out the prosecution.