1. On Dec 28, 2023, in Ludhiana, Punjab, the victim ‘S’, aged around 4 years and 7
months, to whom this Court would affectionately refer to as ‘Laadli’, was taken away
allegedly by the appellant Sonu Singh, aged 28, from the tea-stall of her Nana (maternal
grandfather’s) [PW-1], to the house of his cousin Ashok Kumar, where he had been
residing for 4-5 days, which was just opposite to Laadli’s Nana’s house, and on taking
Laadli inside Ashok’s house, Sonu Singh committed her rape, throttled her to death, and
concealed her dead body in the bed box lying in Ashok’s house, and discreetly fled away;
however, after 20 days the police apprehended Sonu Singh from District Fatehpur, UP, he
was arrested, charge-sheeted, prosecuted, and upon conviction by the Trial Court, was
awarded death sentence as captioned above.
