New Delhi: A court docket has sentenced a life imprisonment to a 44-year-old man convicted of raping his minor daughter. The court docket deemed the crime to be ‘diabolical’, surpassing any mitigating components, reported PTI. The court docket additionally noticed that such a extreme sentence would uphold justice, profit society, and act as a deterrent with out utterly ruining the perpetrator. The court docket additionally ordered compensation of Rs 13 lakh for the sufferer’s reduction and rehabilitation.
Judge Babita Puniya, presiding over the proceedings, a case involving a person beforehand discovered responsible by the court docket for rape and below part 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
“The diabolical nature of the crime and the fact that the victim was the daughter of the convict and was in his care and protection outweigh the personal circumstances of the convict,” reported PTI quoting the listening to.
The court docket highlighted the mitigating components within the case because the convict was the only real earner of the household with aged mother and father, grandmother, spouse and 4 youngsters.
Further noting the annoying components, the court docket mentioned, that the sufferer was harmless and helpless and was repeatedly raped, following which she gave start on the age of 17 years.
The sufferer’s rejection of an interim compensation granted in 2022 was seen as indicative of the trauma she was going via. The decide said that contemplating the severity of the crime, the societal curiosity, and the sufferer’s well-being, the annoying components outweighed the mitigating ones.
