Five years after a 19-year-old raped and murdered a nine-year-old in a chawl room in Nehru Nagar, Kurla, in 2010, the Mumbai Sessions court held Javed Sheikh, now 24, guilty. Special Public Prosecutor Pradip Gharat examined 36 witnesses including the girl’s parents and Shrikant Lade, assistant director, FSL.

“The case was based on circumstantial evidence and DNA reports,” said Gharat, who added that the quantum of sentence will be argued on Tuesday. “I will explain to the court why this is a rarest of rare case, thus asking for death penalty," he added. Special Women court judge Vrushali Joshi convicted Sheikh under all the IPC Sections including 364 (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder), 376 (2) (F) (commits rape on a woman when she is under 12 years of age) and 302 (murder) of IPC.