|
Nine days after charge-sheet, rapist gets 10 years in jail
Thursday January 10, 2013 07:12:44 PM,
IANS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hoshiarpur (Punjab): In one of the fastest rulings in a trial court, a court in this
Punjab town Thursday convicted and sentenced a rapist to 10 years
jail -- just nine days after the charge-sheet was filed.
Additional District and Sessions Judge J.S. Bhinder convicted Jai
Prakash Diwedi, alias Pawan Dubey, of Uttar Pradesh, for the
kidnapping and rape of a minor girl of a village in Garhshankar
sub-division of Hoshiarpur district, and sentenced him to 10 years
rigorous imprisonment.
The victim, aged 17 years and two months at the time of the crime,
used to work in a factory in Ludhiana, 90 km from here, when she
was kidnapped and threatened by the accused in May last year. She
was taken to New Delhi, where the accused raped her for 15 days,
threatening to kill her younger brother if she told anyone about
the rape.
The accused later abandoned her at a bus stop in Delhi.
The girl then managed to get to a local gurdwara where she met a
young couple. They took her to the house of their landlord, Narvir
Singh and Roshni, who helped her. Police investigations revealed
that the victim was married to Manjit Singh of Delhi through a
court marriage Sep 28 last year.
The charge-sheet was filed in the court by Punjab Police Jan 2
this year. After cross-examination and arguments, the court
decided the matter and sentenced the accused to 10 years rigorous
imprisonment on the ninth day of the trial.
The defence counsel had argued that the victim had gone with the
accused on her own and had not been raped. They claimed that she
had had consensual sex with the accused. However, based on the
documents that showed her age to be under 18 years, the court
ruled that she being a minor, her consent, which was obtained
under fear, was legally not tenable.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs.90,000 on the convict.
The court, however, acquitted Narvir Singh and Roshni, who had
been arrested by police, in this matter saying that they had no
role to play in her kidnapping and rape.
The victim had told police and the court that Narvir and Roshni
had not only kept and looked after her but had also got her
married off to Manjit Singh.
"After the filing of the charge-sheet in the court, the matter was
decided within 8-9 days. This is one of the fastest trials in the
country," said additional public prosecutor T.S. Grewal.
Hoshiarpur district police chief Sukhchain Singh Gill said: "The
efforts of police and the judiciary have resulted in this case
being decided in such a short time."
|
|
|
|
Home |
Top of the Page
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
I |
|
|
|
|
More Headlines |
|
25 killed as truck overturns in Bihar |
|
One mn Georgians sign petition for president's resignation |
|
UN observer group to probe LoC incident |
|
People of character not joining politics,
says SC |
|
Sex selective abortion rampant in Delhi,
says study |
|
Why Delhi Police commissioner not suspended:
Asks court |
|
Owaisi gets jail for 14 days, pulled up by
judge |
|
'Nokia changing accounting, business model
to avoid taxes' |
|
Train fares hiked across the board after 10 years |
|
Angry India protests as Pakistanis behead Indian soldiers |
|
Petition to remove Owaisi's speeches from
YouTube dismissed |
|
Nobel laureate says 'superfoods' may cause cancer |
|
|
|
Top Stories |
|
Owaisi gets jail for 14 days, pulled up by
judge
He also pointed out that secularism was an integral part of Indian
democracy and reminded Owaisi that his late father, Sultan
Salahuddin Owaisi, had been a MP -- and so was his brother
Asaduddin now.
»
Petition to remove Owaisi's speeches from
YouTube dismissed
MIM shutdown against Owaisi's arrest hits Adilabad, Nizamabad
|
|
|
|
Most Read |
|
Train fares hiked across the board after 10 years
Indian train
fares were hiked across the board for the first time in 10 years,
with Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal saying this was needed to
keep the world's second largest network going. The new fares
»
|
|
UN observer group to probe LoC incident
The UN
Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) has
received an official complaint from the Pakistan Army and will
conduct a probe into the ceasefire violations on the Line of
Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, a UN spokesman said.
»
Angry India protests as Pakistanis behead Indian soldiers
|
|
|
|
News Pick |
|
Why Delhi Police commissioner not suspended:
Asks court
The court's remarks came after counsel appearing for the police
submitted a status report of the case where it failed to provide
names of officials deployed in police control room (PCR) vans
during the incident and told the court that
»
|
|
People of character not joining politics,
says SC
The judges noted that Plato had said that "Greece's
city-states were not electing good people." Plato had penned his
celebrated treatise "The Republic", advocating "philosopher-kings"
who would have long years of training
»
|
|
Rape-murder in Noida, four policemen
suspended
Four policemen
were suspended and another shunted out here after a 22-year-old
woman who went missing was founded gang-raped and murdered, police
said Sunday.
The victim's family alleged that the main accused, Udaivir Singh
»
|
|
Upset by son's death in Dhule firing, Dy
Tahsildar to resign from post
Disheartened and upset by the death of his son Hafiz Asif
allegedly in
police firing, Abdul Haleem Ansari, who is posted in Dhule as Naeb
(Deputy) Tahsildar
»
Dhule calm but tense; Govt. orders probe
Communal violence in
Dhule, three killed
|
|
|
|
Picture of the Day |
|
 |
|
Artists performing dance drama
based on the ‘Geetgovindam’, by Shri Jayadev, at the
inauguration of the 60th Annual Arts Festival, at Kalakshetra,
Chennai on December 21, 2012. |
|
|
|
Recommend the story to
your friends |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Comments
|
Quick links