KOTA: A Pocso courtroom has sentenced a 22-year-old man to life in jail for holding hostage and raping a 13-year-old woman within the Dadabari police station space round three years in the past. The courtroom additionally slapped a complete fantastic of Rs 41,000 upon the convict.
The convict Deepak Rajput, who ran a grocery store, kidnapped the minor woman when she had gone to his store to buy rice on June 27, 2019, and took her to a close-by abandoned constructing within the neighbourhood, held her captive for round two hours and repeatedly raped her until her relations reached there at evening and rescued her, Public Prosecutor (PP) of Pcocso court-5, Suresh Verma, stated.
Primarily based on the report by the survivor’s mother and father, police lodged a case of abduction and rape below Sections 376 and 342 of the IPC, ¾ of the Pocso Act, and below Sections of SC/ST Act on June 28, 2019, on the Dadabari police station and later arrested the youth, the PP stated.
The police, following thorough investigation and verification of proof, filed the chargesheet, he added.
Particular decide Hanuman Prasad held Deepak Rajput responsible below the related Sections of the IPC, the POCSO and the SC/ST Act on Wednesday and convicted him to a life time period in jail, the PP stated. The convict had been in jail below judicial custody after his arrest, he stated.
Statements of at the least 16 witnesses had been recorded earlier than the courtroom throughout trial, he added.
(The sufferer's identification has not been revealed to guard her privateness as per Supreme courtroom directives on instances associated to sexual assault)