Meerut man gets life term for attempting to rape 100-year-old Dalit woman
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A Meerut court docket on Friday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for attempting to rape a 100-year-old Dalit woman. The incident occurred in 2017 and the woman had died of shock in the course of the medical investigation.
“The convict has been found guilty under Sections 302, 376/511, and 458 of IPC and has been sentenced to life imprisonment. A penalty of ₹25,000 has also been imposed on him,” stated Nishant Kumar Garg, the particular public prosecutor who represented the State within the court docket.
According to the order, handed by Mohd. Ghulam Ul Madar, Special Judge (SC/ST Act), Meerut, the incident occurred on the evening of October 29, 2017 in Raghunathpur village underneath Jani police station of Meerut, when the convict, Ankit Punia, a neighbour of the sufferer, trespassed into her residence in a state of drunken stupor and tried to sexually assault her.
When the sufferer’s grandson and his spouse rushed out, after listening to the cries of their grandmother, they discovered the convict mendacity over the sufferer.
“The grandson raised the alarm and caught Ankit, in his mid-30s, but he managed to escape. The victim was taken to the government hospital, where she passed away the next day during the medical check-up. The post mortem report said the victim was already ill because of age-related issues but died because of the shock caused by the assault,” stated Mr. Garg, including that the convict was, nonetheless, acquitted of prices underneath Sections 3(2) 5 of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.
The lawyer of the convict had argued that the sufferer’s household had owed ₹1 lakh to Mr. Punia’s household and that they filed a false case in opposition to his consumer in order that they didn’t have to repay the mortgage and get compensation from the federal government. “As he could not produce any documentary proof, the honourable judge did not take his argument into account,” stated Mr. Garg.
“There was no motive. Heavily drunk, he just could not hold his sexual urge,” stated Mr Garg. “It is the same as some perverts assault infants and kids,” he argued. The decide described the act as heinous and stated a lighter punishment would ship an adversarial message to society.
However, the decide didn’t discover the case to fall within the rarest of uncommon class, and therefore, the accused was awarded life imprisonment.
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