Pune: The case of the 4-year-old child raped, mutilated, and killed by the 65-year-old rapist Bhimrao Kambli has shocked the nation. But absolutely shaken and grief-stricken by the loss, the child’s father has released a video saying that he does not wish to meet any politician though the latter have made a beeline to his house, reiterating that he first wants to see the accused tried and sent to the gallows.
Until my daughter gets proper justice and the criminal is hanged, no politician should come to our home to meet us.. This is our humble request..
– Father of 4 years child from Pune
He wants justice for his daughter that’s it !! pic.twitter.com/K2avSDwERa
— Trupti Garg (@garg_trupti) May 3, 2026
The man in the video says he is the father of the 4-year-old child who was brutally raped and murdered by a 65-year-old pervert in Nasrapur (Bhor, Pune)
There is a clearer version with the face clearly seen and released to the public by the aggrieved father but we choose to share this morphed version as the country’s laws (to accord privacy and dignity rights to victims of sexual abuse) have strict instructions that the identity of the victim should not be disclosed in any form, be it family name or address etc.
The father’s anger and grief is palpable and justified as the huge backlog of judicial cases in India have led to delayed justice to almost all constituents who reach the courts for legal matters.
When Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar tried to visit the child’s family, she was stopped by locals and others who said they will not allow the funeral of the child to take place until justice is delivered.
Finally Pawar called up the state Chief Minister on phone and brought about a conversation between the CM and the agitated locals.
#पुणे
राजकीय नेत्यांनी सांत्वनासाठी येऊ नये
जेव्हा त्या नराधमाला फाशी होईल त्यानंतर भेटायला यावे
– पिडीत मुलीचे वडील#Pune#Punenews #नसरापूर pic.twitter.com/mQvWWgprwE— Brijmohan Patil (@brizpatil) May 3, 2026
The Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has assured the family of the victim that the delivery of justice will be fast-tracked and the culprit will be hanged to death, but the same is hardly a matter that he can control, notes social activist and public intellectual Shefali Vaidya.
मुख्यमंत्री @Dev_Fadnavis म्हणत आहेत ‘काही झालं तरी त्याला फाशी देऊ’, पण ते त्यांच्या हातात कुठे आहे? अगदी अश्याच २००८ च्या नागपूरच्या लहान मुलीवरचा अत्याचार आणि खून ह्या केस मध्ये फाशीची शिक्षा झालेला वसंत दुपारे आज २०२६ उजाडले तरी छान जिवंत आहे आणि करदात्यांच्या पैशानी सरकारी…
— Shefali Vaidya. 🇮🇳 (@ShefVaidya) May 2, 2026
She cites how rapist Vasant Dupare convicted by the court and sentenced to the gallows in 2008 in the case of a small girl from Nagpur is still not executed and sadly, the same fate may await the Pune child’s case. The accused may yet again be let out on bail on account of legal loopholes and a weak chargesheet and look for yet another victim.
In the last 25 years (2001 till now – May 2026), for instance, only 8 persons have been hanged to death in India.
List of Executions in last quarter century:
Dhananjoy Chatterjee (2004) — 1 person
Ajmal Kasab (2012) — 1 person
Afzal Guru (2013) — 1 person
Yakub Memon (2015) — 1 person
Four Nirbhaya convicts (Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta, Akshay Thakur) on 20 March 2020 — 4 persons
Total: 8 executions. No executions have taken place since March 2020.
Yet, as of 31 December 2025, there were 574 prisoners (550 men and 24 women) who have been placed on the death row till now.
The figure may have likely changed slightly in 2026 due to new sentences, appeals, commutations, or acquittals, but no major new report indicates a big shift as of early 2026.
Note: India follows the “rarest of the rare” principle for death sentences. While trial courts hand down dozens to over 100 death sentences per year, most are commuted or acquitted on appeal, and the Supreme Court has not confirmed any death sentence in recent years.
