Ravinder Kumar was convicted by a Delhi court docket on May 6
New Delhi:
A person accused of kidnapping, sexually assaulting after which murdering as many as 30 youngsters was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court docket right now following his conviction in one of many instances in opposition to him.
On May 6, the court docket in Rohini held Ravinder Kumar responsible of kidnapping, sexually assaulting and murdering a six-year-old. The sentencing was to happen final week however was postponed as a result of the court docket had not acquired a report on Kumar’s earnings and belongings.
Kumar, it’s alleged, abused and killed 30 youngsters between 2008 and 2015. He was arrested in 2015 from the Outer Delhi space and a case registered in Begampur police station.
During the arguments on sentencing, Delhi Police had sought most punishment for the convict.
Originally from Kasganj in Uttar Pradesh, Kumar got here to Delhi in 2008 on the age of 18. Investigation had revealed that he was hooked on porn and medicines. According to police, he labored by way of the day and lived in a shanty.
Police had instructed the court docket that he would search for youngsters after taking medication and would typically stroll as a lot as 40 kilometres. He would go to development websites and slums the place youngsters from underprivileged households typically wandered unattended, police mentioned. He would lure youngsters by exhibiting them 10 rupee notes or goodies. He would then take the kids to an remoted place and abuse them earlier than murdering them, police had instructed court docket.
According to police, on one event, Kumar threw a toddler right into a septic tank.
He was ultimately arrested in 2015 from a bus stand in Rohini after police scanned CCTV footage for days to trace him down.
Ravinder had allegedly kidnapped a six-year-old woman from Kerala in 2008 after which raped and murdered her. He was not arrested in that case. His later targets had been in Delhi-NCR, police mentioned.