SURAT: A special POCSO court on Wednesday sentenced a 39-year-old rickshaw driver to 20 years imprisonment for raping and impregnating a 13-year-old girl.
Judge Aarti Vyas also ordered the convict Virsinh alias Kallu Sikarwar who had repeatedly raped the girl repeatedly by threatening to thrash her parents in 2018.
Sikarwar, who lived in Kanaj village near Olpad town of Surat district, is a native village in Madhya Pradesh.
“The court convicted the accused based on statements of the survivor and scientific evidence.
Involvement of the convict was proved in DNA profiling of the foetus that was aborted,” said Nayan Sukhadwala, district government pleader, Surat.
Sikarwar had developed friendship with the girl in 2018 and started raping her claiming that her father had borrowed money from him.
Later he went to stay in his village in MP and called the girl to meet him in Gwalior.
He took her to his native village Panchampura in MP and forced her to stay with him.
He also promised to marry her.
Following a complaint lodged by the girl’s family, Jahangirpura police traced them and arrested Sikarwar.
The minor was two months pregnant when found.
The court allowed her to undergo abortion.