JYOTI KUMARI RAPE AND MURDER

Supreme Court

Jyoti Kumari Chowdhury

Arun Mishra

cab driver

women

the office

Charu Mathur

A three-member bench of theon Saturday upheld the death penalty of Purshottam Dashrath Borate and Pradeep Yashwant Kokare, accused of the gang rape and murder of Wipro BPO employee(22), in 2007 at Talegaon Dabhade.The bench of justices H L Dattu, S A Bobde andstated that the accused are liable to face the death penalty, as they showed no remorse after committing the crime, and were “incorrigible”, with no scope for reform.The sessions court held the duo guilty on March 20, 2012, sentencing them to death. The high court also confirmed the punishment in September 2012, after which the duo approached the SC.The bench stated,’Thebetrayed her (Jyoti Kumari’s) trust as she was under the impression she would reach office. However, they took her far from her office and committed this heinous crime with extreme brutality on her last day of work. This incident had thrown the safety of workingout of gear. The motive behind the rape and murder was nothing but lust.’Jyoti Kumari was on her way to work around 10.30 pm on November 1, 2007 inpickup car. Instead, Borate and Kokare took her far out of the way, raped and killed her. The duo was arrested on November 3, 2007.Adv Dr, amicus curiae of the accused, confirmed the SC order, saying, “The SC bench appreciated the earlier judgements and described the act as heinous, brutal and butcher-like. At the time of the postmortem, there were photos of the accused seen, in which they were smiling. The bench considered all of this and confirmed the sentence.”