The Special Court, which awarded death penalty to Asafak Alam in the Aluva child rape and murder case, said the court would be failing in its duty if the maximum punishment prescribed under the law was not imposed on the accused.
K. Soman, the Special Judge who tried the case, took a detailed assessment into the manner in which the girl was abducted, intoxicated with liquor, raped repeatedly, subjected to carnal intercourse against the order of the nature, and murdered by the convict.
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