<p>Amid growing resentment and protests in the wake of kidnapping, rape, and murder of a minor Adivasi girl in Pen in Raigad district, the Maharashtra government on Thursday appointed advocate Ujjwal Nikam as the special public prosecutor in the case.</p>.<p>The announcement was made after the minister of state for home Shamburaj Desai rushed to Pen to review the situation.</p>.<p>“The case would be assigned to a fast-track court and the government has appointed Ujjwal Nikam as the special public prosecutor,” Desai told reporters.</p>.<p>The locals carried out a protest march for the second day and demanded capital punishment for the accused.</p>.<p>The accused has been identified as Aadesh Patil, a 32-year-old man.</p>.<p>Incidentally, a few years ago he was convicted on charges of rape and jailed – and committed the crime while on parole.</p>.<p>The brutal incident took place on Tuesday outside the tribal hamlet of Vadhaon in Pen.</p>.<p>The accused kidnapped the girl while her parents were resting.</p>.<p>The accused was seen disposing of the body after sexual assault and murder but managed to escape. On Wednesday, the Pen police managed to arrest him.</p>.<p>He has been booked for kidnapping, rape, murder under provisions of the Indian Penal Code and sections of the Protection of Children against Sexual Offences Act.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, Vaishali Patil, who is a social activist from Raigad, spoke to the Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh and demanded that the case against Patil is run in a fast-track court and that he should be awarded punishment as stringent as was awarded in the Nirbhaya case.</p>
<p>Amid growing resentment and protests in the wake of kidnapping, rape, and murder of a minor Adivasi girl in Pen in Raigad district, the Maharashtra government on Thursday appointed advocate Ujjwal Nikam as the special public prosecutor in the case.</p>.<p>The announcement was made after the minister of state for home Shamburaj Desai rushed to Pen to review the situation.</p>.<p>“The case would be assigned to a fast-track court and the government has appointed Ujjwal Nikam as the special public prosecutor,” Desai told reporters.</p>.<p>The locals carried out a protest march for the second day and demanded capital punishment for the accused.</p>.<p>The accused has been identified as Aadesh Patil, a 32-year-old man.</p>.<p>Incidentally, a few years ago he was convicted on charges of rape and jailed – and committed the crime while on parole.</p>.<p>The brutal incident took place on Tuesday outside the tribal hamlet of Vadhaon in Pen.</p>.<p>The accused kidnapped the girl while her parents were resting.</p>.<p>The accused was seen disposing of the body after sexual assault and murder but managed to escape. On Wednesday, the Pen police managed to arrest him.</p>.<p>He has been booked for kidnapping, rape, murder under provisions of the Indian Penal Code and sections of the Protection of Children against Sexual Offences Act.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, Vaishali Patil, who is a social activist from Raigad, spoke to the Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh and demanded that the case against Patil is run in a fast-track court and that he should be awarded punishment as stringent as was awarded in the Nirbhaya case.</p>