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The headload workers of the market, some of them witnesses in the case, celebrated the death penalty for Bihar native Ashfaq Alam by distributing sweets to those who had gathered in the market.
The prosecution had demanded that the case be considered among the rarest of the rare and sentence the accused, Ashfaq Alam (28), to capital punishment.
The chief minister said that the child fell victim to the most heinous crime and therefore, the entire criminal justice system worked efficiently to catch the culprit.
The ADGP also commended the local residents, media and authorities for helping in the case since the beginning.
The prosecution demanded that the case be considered among the rarest of the rare and sentence the accused to capital punishment.
Ernakulam POCSO court had on Saturday found Ashfaq Alam guilty of the crime.
The 14-year-old had battled for her life for over a week at a private hospital in Ernakulam.
Ashfaq on July 28 abducted the five-year-old child of a couple from Bihar and brutally raped her before torturing her to death.
As per FIR, after physically assaulting her with an iron rod, the man force-fed the girl weedicide.