Rapist gets 20 years’ jail after mother reveals identity to girl’s kin | India News

AMROHA: A special Pocso court in UP’s Amroha has sentenced a 24-year-old man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping an eight-year old girl in May 2019. The accused, Moolchand, was nailed when his mother wracked by guilt at her son’s misdeed reached the survivor’s house a few days after the crime to seek forgiveness for her son’s heinous act and revealed his name before the girl’s family.
Additional district government counsel, Ratanlal Lodhi, said on Saturday, “The girl was taken away by the accused on his bike when she was playing outside her house. He also tried to remove the evidence. The girl later narrated her ordeal at home. Since the accused was from a neighbouring village, the girl could not identify him.”
He added: “A case was registered the same day and the girl was sent to the district hospital for medical tests which confirmed rape.”
An FIR was initially lodged under relevant IPC sections and Pocso Act, against an “unidentified person” on the basis of a police complaint filed by the survivor’s family.
A senior police officer said, “No one had seen the rapist and hence a case was filed against ‘unknown person’. But then, something unusual happened. The mother of the culprit reached the girl’s house and revealed the name of her son which led to his arrest.”
ADGC Lodhi said,“Police then nabbed the accused and jailed him. A chargesheet was subsequently submitted on October 19, 2019, The special judge, Sanjay Kumar, of the addition- al district and sessions court, Friday sentenced him for 20 years , and he was charged a fine of Rs 60,000.”