Man, 30, gets 20 years for raping minor in ghaziabad
Ghaziabad, Dec. 10 -- A Ghaziabad court has awarded 20 years of rigorous imprisonment to a 30-year-old man for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl several times in 2018 and 2019 and also impregnating her, the prosecution lawyers said. The girl's family lodged an FIR on January 31, 2019, at Link Road police station.
According to the prosecution case, accused Mohammad Sahul, then aged 24 and a resident of Farrukhnagar, Sahibabad, faced charges under IPC section 376(3) (rape of a woman or girl under the age of sixteen years), 506 (criminal intimidation) and also under provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (Pocso).
An FIR was lodged by the victim's sister when on January 29, 2019, the girl complained of health complications, and was later found pregnant. She revealed that the accused raped her in September 2018, October 2018, and also in January 2019.
The prosecution said the accused often visited the victim's locality. "The man, finding the girl alone, raped her by forcing her into a room in her locality in September, 2018 and also on other occasions. He issued threats to her not to reveal the incident to anyone else; he would kill her two brothers... Later, when the girl was taken to a hospital in Delhi, doctors found her pregnant," said Utkarsh Vats, special public prosecutor (Pocso).
In an order issued on Monday, Special Judge (Pocso) Neeraj Gautamsaid,"Accused Sahul is found guilty and awarded rigorous imprisonment of 20 years under IPC section 376(3) and directed to pay a fine of Rs.50000. In case of non-payment of the fine, he will face two extra months of imprisonment."...
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