New Delhi: A court on Saturday convicted a man of kidnapping and murdering a two-year-old girl in 2014. Ravinder, an alleged serial killer, is already undergoing life imprisonment for raping and murdering a six-year-old girl in 2015.The court of additional sessions judge Amit Sehrawat noted that it was established that the girl’s body was recovered from a place near the spot where Ravinder was last seen with the minor. The judge said, “The only substantial evidence against the accused is the last seen theory.”The court was hearing the case registered by Samaypur Badli police station under IPC sections 302 (murder) and 363 (kidnapping).Special public prosecutors Vineet Dahiya and Aditya Kumar submitted that the accused was “a serial killer” against whom more than 25 FIRs were registered for “brutally kidnapping, raping and murdering minor children”. Kumar claimed that Ravinder was “a psychopath serial killer and all his victims were minor children”. The arguments on sentencing will start on Aug 28.The court, however, said the previous involvement of the accused in similar offences was not substantial evidence, but it could be considered to some extent. “The deceased was a child of just two and a half years, and the body of such a small child is so soft and delicate that even a small injury can cause a bigger effect. If the mouth of a child is smothered with so much force by an adult person that the teeth leave marks on the lips, then it shows that the accused intended to cause the death of said child,” the judge noted.In May 2023, a court sentenced Ravinder to rigorous imprisonment for life for kidnapping, raping and murdering a six-year-old girl in 2015. The court had remarked that the convict committed a “cold-blooded rape and murder”. The act was so gruesome that the convict did not deserve any leniency, it said. The crime was no less than an “act of a predator”, the court added.
