PATNA: A special court set up under The Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act here on Wednesday sentenced a 25-year-old youth to 10-year rigorous imprisonment after holding him guilty of raping a 75-year-old widow at Jaiwar village under the Gaurichak police station in Patna six years back. The woman had died two months after the incident due to depression.
The special court of
ADJ-III Triloki Dubey
also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on the convict,
Karu Kumar
alias
Karu Singh
.
Karu is also accused of raping a minor girl in the village and he is still facing trial in the case. He was also accused of sodomising a minor boy in the village, but no case was lodged by the boy’s parents due to social stigma.
The widow was raped on July 21, 2015 when she was working in fields near her house. She somehow returned home and narrated the incident to her son and other family members. The woman was later taken to a hospital for treatment.
Special public prosecutor
Shyam Nandan Kumar Singh
and junior counsel
Meena Kumari had demanded life imprisonment for Karu. However, the court awarded 10-year RI to Karu as the deposition of the victim, investigating officer and government doctor who had conducted medical examination could not take place in the course of trial.
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