Show no sympathy to rapists, HC tells courts
Courts should not show “sympathy” towards rapists who have ruined the lives of young girls to satisfy their lust, the Delhi high court has said, cautioning that letting them off can encourage others to commit such offence.
Upholding the seven-year jail term to a man for abducting and raping a 14-year-old, Justice P.K. Bhasin said, “If the courts start getting sympathetic towards persons who commit such serious offences and spoil the lives of young girls for the satisfaction of their sexual lust, more and more persons having such tendencies would get encouraged and more and more young girls would become their prey.”
The court’s observation came while dismissing an appeal filed by Razzi Ahmed against a trial court order convicting and jailing him for seven years in the 12-year-old case.
The court said “he should consider himself to be lucky not to have been awarded a longer period of stay in jail” and directed the police to take Ahmed into custody so that he can undergo the remaining sentence. The convict was on bail during the pendency of his appeal in the HC.
The trial court had rejected Ahmed’s plea for lighter punishment.
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Woman ‘raped’ by neighbour
Faridabad, March 24: A married woman has alleged that she was repeatedly raped by her neighbour for over a period of ten months, the police said on Sunday.
A case of rape has been registered against Dinesh (35) based on the complaint filed by the victim at the Nangla Enclave police station here, they said.
In the complaint, the victim has alleged that Dinesh took advantage of her being alone at home when her husband and three children went for work and school respectively and repeatedly raped her for over a period of ten months.
The victim did not tell about her ordeal to anyone during this time as she had been threatened by the accused that he will kill her and her family, police said. The woman, however, gathered courage recently and narrated her ordeal to her husband. A case has been registered and the matter is being probed into, the police said. — PTI
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