Man gets 8-yr jail, Rs 14,000 fine for raping minor
25 Jan 2013 6:21 AM IST
Three days after directing the police to compensate a minor rape victim for forcing her to settle the matter with the convict, a Delhi court on Thursday sentenced the man to eight years in jail and a fine of Rs 14,000.
Additional Sessions Judge Pawan Jain awarded eight years imprisonment and fine to central Delhi resident Birju alias Mathur, who was found guilty of raping the 13-year-old girl after kidnapping her.
While convicting the man on 21 January, the court had pulled up the city police for initially not registering a rape case on the basis of her complaint and instead pressuring her and her mother to settle the matter with the accused.
Slamming the police for its ‘inaction and apathy’, the court had also ordered the police to pay a compensation of Rs 25,000 to the victim.
Birju was a customer at the victim’s mother’s bidi shop and was known to the girl. On November 27, 2011, he had kidnapped the girl when she had come out of her hutment to ease herself and raped her. He had then threatened to kill her in case she disclosed the incident to anyone.
As per the prosecution, the victim had approached the police post of Jai Prakash Narain Hospital under Indra Prastha Estate Police on December 12, 2011 along with her mother and said that she was kidnapped by Birju and was raped by him.
Medical examination of the girl had confirmed rape.
The girl and her mother, however, told the court they had reported the matter to the police the very next day but were asked to settle the matter with the convict as they were told by the police that if they lodge the complaint, the girl too would be arrested and jailed for seven years.
The victim told the court that it was only after her grandmother got to know about the incident that she went to the Deputy Commissioner of Police’s office and subsequently, an FIR was lodged.
‘In the instant case, the police had not only violated the legal rights of the victim and her family by showing disrespect to them, but also violated the legal and human rights of the victim by not lodging the FIR and pressurising her to settle the matter with the accused,’ the court had said.
Additional Sessions Judge Pawan Jain awarded eight years imprisonment and fine to central Delhi resident Birju alias Mathur, who was found guilty of raping the 13-year-old girl after kidnapping her.
While convicting the man on 21 January, the court had pulled up the city police for initially not registering a rape case on the basis of her complaint and instead pressuring her and her mother to settle the matter with the accused.
Slamming the police for its ‘inaction and apathy’, the court had also ordered the police to pay a compensation of Rs 25,000 to the victim.
Birju was a customer at the victim’s mother’s bidi shop and was known to the girl. On November 27, 2011, he had kidnapped the girl when she had come out of her hutment to ease herself and raped her. He had then threatened to kill her in case she disclosed the incident to anyone.
As per the prosecution, the victim had approached the police post of Jai Prakash Narain Hospital under Indra Prastha Estate Police on December 12, 2011 along with her mother and said that she was kidnapped by Birju and was raped by him.
Medical examination of the girl had confirmed rape.
The girl and her mother, however, told the court they had reported the matter to the police the very next day but were asked to settle the matter with the convict as they were told by the police that if they lodge the complaint, the girl too would be arrested and jailed for seven years.
The victim told the court that it was only after her grandmother got to know about the incident that she went to the Deputy Commissioner of Police’s office and subsequently, an FIR was lodged.
‘In the instant case, the police had not only violated the legal rights of the victim and her family by showing disrespect to them, but also violated the legal and human rights of the victim by not lodging the FIR and pressurising her to settle the matter with the accused,’ the court had said.
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