Kerala Court Convicts Asafaq Alam For Rape, Murder Of Migrant Worker's 5-Yr-Old In Aluva

A Kerala Court today convicted Asafaq Alam, the accused in the case pertaining to the brutal rape and murder of a 5 year old girl child from a migrant labourer family hailing from Bihar. 

The POCSO Court Judge, Ernakulam K. Soman passed the Order. 

The child went missing on July 28, 2023. She was strangulated and dumped into a waste yard in Aluva market. The police arrested accused Asafaq Alam, also a migrant labourer, in a highly inebriated condition on the same day.

The accused is convicted of 16 offences, including murder, rape and destruction of evidence.

Trial in the case was completed within 26 days of filing the charge sheet. The verdict has been pronounced within 100 days of the occurrence of the tragic incident. 

The POCSO Court shall pronounce the sentence to be imposed on the convict on November 9, 2023.