A Delhi court has sentenced a 28-year-old man to 10 years in jail for kidnapping and raping a six-year-old girl in 2013, observing that the society would not let her forget the incident.
Special Judge Seema Maini convicted the man under Section 6 (committing aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of the POCSO Act and Section 363 (kidnapping) of the Indian Penal Code.
The court also imposed ₹15,000 fine on him. It said, “In this happy world of the child victim in the instant case, convict has barged in like a giant ogre. He broke her trust, duped her with a false promise of samosa and thereafter mangled her body. The victim child, oblivious of the terms ‘sex, sexuality, sexual assault, and the sexual act’, was brutally exposed to the same at such a tender age.”
According to the prosecution, the man, who was a neighbour, came to the girl’s house in the evening on January 17, 2013 and asked her mother if her husband was at home.
The girl’s mother said he was not, after which, the accused took the girl with him on the pretext of buying her food, without informing her mother. When she did not return, her mother started looking for her and spotted her on the street. The child , who was crying, told her mother about the incident. The mother then called the police after which the accused was arrested.
During the trial, the man, however, claimed innocence and said that he was falsely implicated in the case.
The court said the child was likely to lose her faith, trust and carefree attitude for all times to come.
