NEW DELHI, Nov. 22 -- A Delhi court on Thursday said that the legislature has not made any distinction between digital penetration and penile penetration, while announcing 25 years of sentence to a man for sexually assaulting a minor girl. The court was dealing with the sexual assault of a two-year-old girl by 30-year-old Raj Kumar.
Advocate Abhijeet Bhagat, the legal aid counsel for Kumar said that since it was a case of digital penetration, a lenient view might be taken while imposing a sentence. The court said, "Rape is in itself a violent crime... the mere fact that there were no additional physical injuries does not make it a mitigating factor".
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