Saying a ‘girl child is to be worshipped and not raped’, a fast track court here sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping and sodomising his minor daughter.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Virender Bhat, also slapping a fine of Rs 60,000, held that the crime committed by the convict, being the father of the victim, was intensely grave, serious and barbaric in nature.
The convict would not be entitled to any clemency till he spends at least 20 years in jail, the court ruled.
‘There is no crime more heinous and ghastly than the present one and no other crime can be more humiliating and disgraceful for a man than act of seducing his own daughter,’ the order stated.
‘The girl child is considered incarnation of Mata Lakshmi in a household. Hindu religion ordains us to worship the girl child as the manifestation of Goddess Lakshmi. There is a tradition prevalent in the Hindus to worship minor girls on the last day of Navratras which is known as ‘Kanjak Puja’.’
‘The girl child is to be worshipped and not raped. Sexual assault upon a girl child is the most sinful, barbaric and savage atrocity and hence not only highly deplorable but severely punishable. One fails to imagine how a person would think of ravishing a minor, innocent girl and that too when the girl is his own daughter who, in fact, deserves to be worshipped as a form of Goddess Durga.’
In September 2012, the mother of the child registered a case against her husband.
GIRL MOLESTED
A Class VIII student was molested in east Delhi on Monday. Police has arrested a 17-year-old boy in the case. The 15-year-old victim was returning home after her coaching classes when the accused, in a Santro car, pulled her in and molested her. The girl escaped from the moving car at Shahdara Metro station. A case under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 342 (wrongful confinement), 354 (assault or criminal force), 363 (kidnapping) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC has been lodged.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Virender Bhat, also slapping a fine of Rs 60,000, held that the crime committed by the convict, being the father of the victim, was intensely grave, serious and barbaric in nature.
The convict would not be entitled to any clemency till he spends at least 20 years in jail, the court ruled.
‘There is no crime more heinous and ghastly than the present one and no other crime can be more humiliating and disgraceful for a man than act of seducing his own daughter,’ the order stated.
‘The girl child is considered incarnation of Mata Lakshmi in a household. Hindu religion ordains us to worship the girl child as the manifestation of Goddess Lakshmi. There is a tradition prevalent in the Hindus to worship minor girls on the last day of Navratras which is known as ‘Kanjak Puja’.’
‘The girl child is to be worshipped and not raped. Sexual assault upon a girl child is the most sinful, barbaric and savage atrocity and hence not only highly deplorable but severely punishable. One fails to imagine how a person would think of ravishing a minor, innocent girl and that too when the girl is his own daughter who, in fact, deserves to be worshipped as a form of Goddess Durga.’
In September 2012, the mother of the child registered a case against her husband.
GIRL MOLESTED
A Class VIII student was molested in east Delhi on Monday. Police has arrested a 17-year-old boy in the case. The 15-year-old victim was returning home after her coaching classes when the accused, in a Santro car, pulled her in and molested her. The girl escaped from the moving car at Shahdara Metro station. A case under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 342 (wrongful confinement), 354 (assault or criminal force), 363 (kidnapping) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC has been lodged.