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'Far-fetched for daughter to accuse father of rape just in anger': Bombay HC upholds man's life sentence
Updated On: 09 March, 2026 10:06 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
In his plea, the man argued that his daughter had implicated him falsely because he had stopped her studies as a parental disciplinary step, which had made her resentful. However, HC rejected this theory
The Bombay High Court upheld a special court’s verdict convicting the man and sentencing him to life imprisonment. FILE PIC
The Bombay High Court (HC) on Monday called it "too far-fetched" to believe a father's claim that his minor daughter had accused him of rape merely out of anger, news agency PTI reported.
A division bench of Justices Manish Pitale and Shreeram Shirsat dismissed the man's appeal and upheld the life sentence imposed by a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court that convicted him of repeatedly raping his minor daughter.
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