Srinagar, Feb. 19 -- A local court in north Kashmir on Tuesday sentenced a "faith healer" to 14 years of rigorous imprisonment for committing unnatural sexual offences with two minor children during their religious lessons.
Dismissing defense counsel's assertion about four-year delay in registering of FIR, Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Sopore Mir Wajahat reasoned it with a poem.
"Better Late Than Never; A voice once lost, now breaks the chain, No more silence, no more pain. Justice waits, though time may sever, Yet truth prevails - better late than never," the judge said while sentencing Aijaz Ahmad Sheikh, a religious preacher and so-called faith healer.
Sentencing him to seven years each for offence committed against two victims, the...