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Two get life term for gang rape of minor
The special court (POCSO Act) of Ayodhya district awarded life imprisonment to two people and six-year jail term to their accomplice in connection with the gang
The special court (POCSO Act) of Ayodhya district awarded life imprisonment to two people and six-year jail term to their accomplice in connection with the gang rape of a 14-year-old girl reported at Kumarganj police station in July 2016, police officials said on Saturday.
They said the court also slapped a monetary penalty of ₹50,000 each on the two convicts while the third was asked to deposit penalty of ₹73,000.
Senior superintendent of police, Ayodhya, Ashish Tewari said Pramod Singh and Ramesh Badai were convicted of raping the minor girl while Ram Murti Mishra was convicted of assisting them by standing guard outside the place where the crime took place. He said the two accused had kidnapped the girl while she was sleeping on the terrace of her house and raped her after taking her to a secluded spot.
He said the charges against them were framed under Section 376-D of the IPC for gang rape, 323 for voluntarily causing hurt, 342 for wrongful confinement, 352 for assault or the use of criminal force and 452 for criminal house trespass.
RECENT CONVICTIONS
Nov 16, 2019: A special court in Ayodhya convicted two people and awarded death sentence to them for gang rape and murder of a 6-year-old girl.
Nov 16, 2019: A special court of Bareilly awarded life sentence to a 40-year-old man for raping a two-year-old girl in Bareilly district.
Sep 19, 2019: The Agra special POCSO court awarded death penalty to a 50-year-old a man, who raped and murdered his seven-year-old daughter on November 25, 2017. In the case, the statement of the convict’s two teenage sons’ became the basis for the judgment.
Aug 30, 2019: The Auraiya POCSO court awarded life sentence to a 22-year-old man Shyam Veer for raping a four-year-old girl on August 1, 2019. The entire process of filing the charge sheet and the trial was completed in merely 29 days.
