Correct Answer : Kanwardeep Kaur
Chandigarh Senior Superintendent of Police, Kanwardeep Kaur, on Saturday (12th August 2023) was named as the recipient of the ‘Union Home Minister’s Medal of Excellence in Investigation’ for the year 2023. The award will be presented to Kaur on a date, which is yet to be formally decided.
Kaur was given the award for her outstanding investigative work in a minor’s rape case, which resulted in the accused being sentenced to death within 11 months of committing the crime.
As per details, Kaur worked the case when she was the SSP of Kapurthala district. On the basis of Kaur’s investigations, the Kapurthala district court not only handed down the death sentence to the 26-year-old accused, who had raped and left the 7-year-old brutally injured, but also awarded a Rs 8 lakh compensation to the victim and her family.
According to details of the case, the police had nabbed the accused Mukesh Kumar, a resident of Bihar, for committing the crime in a slum area near the Rail Coach Factory (RCF), Kapurthala, on March 15, 2021, immediately after the incident. The police later said that Mukesh had arrived in Kapurthala two weeks before the day of the incident.
Subsequently, a case was registered under sections 376 (punishment for rape), 307 (attempt to murder), and other relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, as well as Section 4 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO), at the Sultanpur Lodhi police station..
Source : Indian Express
