The court sentenced him to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for rape, two years for impersonating a police officer and three years for extortion
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A court in Navi Mumbai has sentenced a 44-year-old security guard to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for posing as a police officer and raping a woman in 2016, reported news agency PTI.
Additional Sessions Judge Parag A Sane of Belapur court convicted the accused, Sagar Baburao Dhulap, of charges under sections 376 (rape), 170 (personating a public servant), and 384 (extortion) of the Indian Penal Code, reported PTI.
The court sentenced him to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for rape, two years for impersonating a police officer and three years for extortion.
It also imposed a fine of Rs 1,500 and directed that the sentences are to run concurrently.
A copy of the judgment, delivered on December 15, was made available on Monday.
According to the prosecution, on February 13, 2016, the survivor and her friend visited a lodge in Kurla in neighbouring Mumbai, where the accused intercepted them posing as a police officer, reported PTI.
Dhulap threatened to inform the parents of the survivor, who was 22 years old at the time, and demanded Rs 30,000 from her. The accused forcibly took her to a lodge in Turbhe, where he raped her, reported PTI.
Judge Sane dismissed the defence's argument that the woman's failure to shout for help in public places suggested a consensual relationship.
"Considering the age of the victim coupled with the entire case of the prosecution, I am of the view that only this factor will not be sufficient to discard the entire case... As the accused stated that he is a policeman. Hence, she did not shout," the court noted, reported PTI.
Thane court sentences three people to 3 years RI for kidnapping baby
In another case, a court in Maharashtra's Thane has sentenced three people to three years of rigorous imprisonment for kidnapping a five-month-old baby in the city, reported PTI.
Additional sessions judge Suryakant S Shinde found the accused, including two women, guilty of charges under section 137(1)(b) (kidnapping) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for the crime that took place in October last year, reported PTI.
A copy of the order dated December 15 was made available on Saturday. As per the case details, the infant's mother, Vanita Rakesh Pawar, a scrap collector, reported that he was abducted while the family was sleeping under the Rabodi flyover bridge on October 12, 2024, reported PTI.
(With inputs from PTI)
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