Chandigarh court convicts man of raping 13-year-old stepdaughter

The Chandigahr court held the accused guilty under Section 376 (3) (committing rape on a woman under 16 years) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act

A local court has convicted an Uttar Pradesh of raping his 13-year-old stepdaughter in 2018.

The accused was booked on April 13, 2019, on the complaint of the child’s mother. (HT)

The court of additional district judge Swati Sehgal held the accused guilty under Section 376 (3) (committing rape on a woman under 16 years) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

The sentence will be pronounced on Saturday.

The accused was booked on April 13, 2019, on the complaint of the child’s mother.

The mother had told the police that she had two sons, aged 17 and 15, a 13-year-old daughter from her first marriage. After her first husband abandoned the family, she got married to the accused in 2013.

While they initially lived in Uttar Pradesh, they moved to Chandigarh after four months of marriage. She said she was against having more children, but the accused would keep pressuring her. Later, he started assaulting her and her children, and would also make advances at her daughter.

She filed another complaint at the public window on December 12, 2018, and an FIR for kidnapping and rape was finally registered on April 13, 2019.