A man aged 60 years and sentenced to one year imprisonment for molesting a minor has been denied leniency by a Delhi court which felt that his case deserves no consideration.
“There is no reason to interfere with the order of conviction and sentence passed by the trial court. The depraved action of the accused with a girl child old enough to be his granddaughter deserves no consideration and speaks of the increasing malaise in society which needs to be curbed with an iron hand,” District and Sessions Judge Ina Malhotra said.
Convict Gopal Yadav, a native of Uttar Pradesh, had moved Sessions court challenging his conviction.
The allegations against him were that on July 31, 2012, in the afternoon, he molested a girl of seven years by forcibly hugging, kissing and disrobing her.
The victim had told the police and the court that on the day of the incident, she had gone out to call her friends for tuition. Yadav, who was working as a servant at a nearby dairy, took her to a side and misbehaved with her. She also disclosed that he had misbehaved with her two months ago too and had given her Rs.4.
In the instant case, the girl said the convict let her free as she started screaming out of pain when the man molested her. She said he threatened to stab her if she disclosed the incident to anyone.
