Bhadohi:

A special POCSO court here on Tuesday sentenced a person to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a 13-year-old mentally challenged girl.

Additional District Judge (POCSO) Madhu Dogra on Tuesday held Satish Rajbhar alias Chhotu guilty of the crime and slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 on him, Special Public Prosecutor Ashwini Kumar Mishra (POCSO) said.

The court said the entire amount recovered from the fine should be given to the parents of the mentally challenged girl.

In case of non-payment of the fine by the convict, he will have to spend an additional five years in jail.

Superintendent of Police Meenakshi Katyayan said when the family of the mentally-challenged girl couldn’t find her at home on March 8, they started looking for her. Then some women told them that they saw the girl with Satish Rajbhar at around 5 pm.

Katyayan said during the search, the girl was found naked in a field and there were wounds from teeth on her hands and feet.

The girl told her family about her ordeal through gestures. The same night, a case was filed against the accused under sections of the IPC and POCSO Act and the accused was sent to jail.

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Bulandshahr:

A court here on Monday sentenced a 48-year-old man to life imprisonment for raping his mother, a government counsel said.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 51,000 on the man, the counsel said.

Additional Government Advocate Vijay Kumar Sharma said the incident took place on January 16, 2023, in a village under Dehat police station limits where Aabid took his mother to the fields to get fodder and raped her there.

Aabid fled the spot after committing the crime and was later caught by his brothers Yusuf and Javed, Sharma said.

On January 21, 2023, a case was registered under sections 376 (punishment for rape) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), he said.

In the hearing on Monday, Additional District Judge Varun Mohit Nigam held Aabid guilty and sentenced him to life imprisonment, apart from slapping a fine of Rs 51,000 on him, he added.

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Shahjahanpur (UP):

Police in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur arrested a man on Wednesday for allegedly raping two four-year-old girls, officials said.

Superintendent of Police Rajesh S said, “The accused, identified as Nandu alias Nandlal, lured the girls into his home while they were playing.” 

“He then locked them in a room and assaulted one of them. When the girl screamed, he let her go but proceeded to assault the second girl,” SP said.

The girls eventually escaped and reported the incident to their families, who immediately filed a complaint with the police, he said.

“The accused was arrested on Wednesday for rape and relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and sent to jail,” the officer said.

The girls have been sent for medical examination, he added.

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Farrukhabad:

A 13-year-old girl here has become pregnant allegedly after she was raped by a government school peon, police said on Saturday.

An FIR has been lodged against the peon of the council school and his associate who allegedly helped him during the incident some months ago, the police said.

“The family of the 13-year-old girl has lodged a case against the accused men. The girl had gone to defecate at night when Pankaj and Amit of the village caught her and took her to an empty house where Amit raped her while Pankaj stood outside and kept a watch,” a police official said, citing the complaint.

“The accused raped her by stuffing a cloth in her mouth. After this, the girl was threatened that if she complained, they would kill her. But when the girl became five-month pregnant, her mother came to know about the matter. After which the mother approached the local police,” the official said.

An FIR has been lodged on charges of rape and under provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act against the accused, the police said.

Pankaj is a peon in council school and he got the job as the dependent of a dead person, they said.

Kayamganj Kotwali in-charge Inspector Ram Avatar said that initial medical check-up on the girl has been done.

“No one has been arrested yet. Arrests will be made soon in the case,” the official added.

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Pratapgarh:

A special court has convicted a man of raping his minor step-daughter about five years ago and sentenced him to 20 years imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000.

Additional District Government Advocate (ADGC) Devesh Chandra Tripathi said on Sunday the court of Special Judge (POCSO Act) Parul Verma sentenced the guilty step-father Rakesh to twenty years imprisonment and also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000.

Devesh Chandra Tripathi said that the complainant alleged in the complaint given to the police that on the night of September 9, 2019, her husband Rakesh, in a drunken state, raped the ten-year-old girl in the dark of the night.

When she started screaming in pain, the complainant switched on the light and saw that her husband was allegedly trying to kill the girl by strangling her with a gas pipe.

The girl said that her step-father had been sexually abusing her for three years. On the basis of the complaint, the police registered a case under relevant sections and after completing the investigation, filed a chargesheet in the court.

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Deoria, UP:

A 14-year-old boy was apprehended on Tuesday for allegedly raping a four-year-old girl in a village of this Uttar Pradesh district, police said.

Deoria Superintendent of Police Sankalp Sharma said the incident took place on Monday evening when the girl was out grazing goats.

On learning about the incident, her family members took her to the community health centre in Gauri Bazar from where she was referred to the Maharshi Devraha Baba Medical College in Deoria, the SP said.

Based on complaint lodged by the minor’s family on Tuesday, the police apprehended the accused teenager and sent him to a juvenile home, he added.

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