The public prosecutor in the case said the convict did not deserve any leniency as he sexually assaulted and harassed the 10-year-old girl for over eight months, causing her immense mental trauma
The girl was sexually assaulted for a period of over eight months. Representational pic
A court in Delhi has sentenced a 59-year-old man to rigorous imprisonment for seven years for raping his minor step-granddaughter, news agency PTI reported.
Additional sessions judge Ankit Mehta convicted the man on charges of disrobing, outraging a woman's modesty, causing hurt and criminal intimidation along with Section 10 (aggravated sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
Public prosecutor Vineet Dahiya said the convict did not deserve any leniency as he sexually assaulted and harassed the 10-year-old girl for over eight months, causing her immense mental trauma.
In its July 9 order, the Delhi court said, "Convict used to give oil massage to her minor step-grand daughter or survivor with sexual intent, on her entire body after completely disrobing her and that he also used to give beatings and criminally intimidate her not to disclose the same to anyone."
The girl was in the care and protection of her step-grandfather, but he "repeatedly subjected her to inappropriate oil massage", reported PTI.
"Young girls and children living around us need to be protected, and such reprehensible acts do not deserve any kind of leniency. The facts of the present case warrant that the law needs to be applied with full force so that a message may go out to society at large that such acts shall also face the necessary consequences and the sentencing acts as a deterrent," the order said.
The man was also punished and sentenced under Sections 354 B (assault or use of criminal force to a woman with the intent to disrobe), 354 (assault or criminal force to a woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 506 (criminal intimidation) and Section 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
The survivor was ordered a compensation of Rs 3 lakh for the immense mental trauma she suffered.
Thane court convicts man of sexually assaulting 8-year-old girl in 2018, acquits him of rape charge
A court in Thane district has convicted a 52-year-old man for sexually assaulting a girl in 2018, while acquitting him on the charge of rape citing lack of evidence, reported news agency PTI.
In the order passed on Tuesday, special court judge DS Deshmukh, hearing cases pertaining to the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, convicted Rameshsingh Vijaybahadur Singh and sentenced him to the period of imprisonment: seven years and two months, which he has already served.
The court also fined him Rs 1,000.
However, Singh was acquitted of the more severe charges of rape under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and sections 3 and 4 (penetrative sexual assault) of the POCSO Act, reported PTI.
The case was registered on August 4, 2018 at Kapurbawadi Police Station in Thane. The crime had taken place between April 29 and May 6 that year.
Special public prosecutor Rekha Hivarale argued that Singh committed penetrative sexual assault on the eight-year-old girl in a public toilet. The child’s father filed the complaint after his brother allegedly witnessed the accused attempting to sexually assault the child, and the girl herself disclosed multiple instances of penetrative sexual assault.
(With PTI inputs)
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