In what can prove a deterrence to such crimes in the society, a Delhi court has sentenced a 59-year-old man to seven years rigorous imprisonment for raping his minor step granddaughter.The girl was also ordered a compensation of Rs 3 lakh for the immense mental trauma she suffered.
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 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 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 minor was found to have been under the care and protection of her step-grandfather, but he "repeatedly subjected her to inappropriate oil massage".
"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 IPC.
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