new delhi the supreme court on thursday stayed execution of a death row convict found guilty of brutally raping and murdering a threeyearold and sought reports from the superintendent of yerawada prison at pune on his conduct during the incarceration period while also ordering assessment of his mental health by a medical teama bench of chief justice d y chandrachud and justices hima kohli and j b pardiwala also asked the maharashtra government to submit reports of all probation officers who kept watch on the convict it ordered the government hospital at pune to constitute a medical team for psychological evaluation of ramkirat munilal goud who was found guilty of rape and murder of a threeyearold on september 30 2013 her body was found in a pool of mud three days later a thane court had sentenced him to death penalty and the bombay hc had confirmed the death sentencethe bench asked the jail superintendent to also inform the court about the nature of work assigned to goud in prison all the authorities concerned were asked to submit their reports within eight weeks and the sc stayed the execution of the death row convict till the apex court decided on his appealthe hc had on november 25 2021 confirmed the death sentence and said a bud of rose was crushed before it bloomed a kite was torn when about to fly the budding flower was crushed to ashes and the kite took the soul away this is yet another sad saga of a threeyear old girl child who was playing with her little dog when she was noticed by a knave man who was driven by a desire of lust upon the sight of a little happy harmless child playing in herown world as mandated by repeated judgments of the sc for consideration of mitigating circumstances by courts before award of death penalty only in rarest of rare cases the hc had said the act of the accused is gruesome and is committed in a diabolic manner it is a heinous offence it is unimaginable that a cheerful frolicking child enjoying with her pet would provoke the feelings of lust in a man who is a father of two daughters and a son the perversity in the mind of the accused is apparent and therefore we are of the opinion that the aggravating circumstances in the present case outweigh the mitigating circumstances placed before the court in the course of hearing of the appeal appearing for the convict senior advocate meenakshi arora told the bench that time has come for apex court to consider putting in place a permanent body which would examine whether a convict had reformed enough during the incarceration period to go back to society and lead a normal life