Pune: The ACT Pocso Court (Act Pocso) GP Agrawal here on Friday was punished and sentenced to a 63-year-old Chandannagar resident to 10 years in prison to repeatedly raping a minor of Mumbai between August 2014 and January 2016 after luring him with a career in modeling .
Survivor was then 16-plus year old and was studying at STD XI at a city campus.
The defendant was 57 years old at the time of his arrest on March 11, 2016, and had been imprisoned since then.
The court found him guilty of recurring rape counts under section 376 from IPC and sexual assault under Section 4 Pocso Law.
However, the court released him to kidnap, attack, accusation of criminal intimidation and under the provisions of the IT Law, due to lack of evidence.
Sunil’s special prosecutor more examined seven witnesses to support prosecution cases.
The girl came to Pune for the study and initially lived with close relatives before shifting to a hostel.
He met the defendant through his relatives during a picnic in August 2014.
The prosecution case was that the defendant told him that he was a senior officer with Pune Municipal company and had a cloth shop.
Two numbers exchange and relate to each other after a picnic.
The defendant told him that he had contact and could help him get modeling assignments.
With the pretext of making a photo profile, the defendant took the girl to a hotel near the Sinhagad fortress where they had a few drinks after the girl went to bed.
He then hurts him and took his picture.
A few days later, he began to squeeze the girl and demanded physical relationships.
Worried that the defendant would make the public photos, he gave up on his demands and the defendant began to call him regularly and continued to have a physical relationship with him.
After the point when it became unbearable for him to continue the relationship, the girl then walked to the Taman Bund police station on March 10, 2016, and filed Volle FIR, which was referred to Warje Malwadi police.
The defendant had taken the consensual relationship defense, in addition to think that he had failed a potential test.
Thus the alleged rape did not last against him.
The court, however, said small approval, even if it was assumed to be given, not material in the case of rape.
The court also rejected the negative potential report argument in the light of the 2013 criminal law amendments relating to violations of rape and was observed that the defendant had two children from his wife.
Thus, the impotence argument cannot survive.
The court also found survivor deposition as cogent, reliable and reliable.
The judge chose a rare sentence instead of imposing a vision of a lifetime.
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The defendant was around 63 years old Life, “said the court.
(The identity of the victim has not been disclosed to protect his privacy in accordance with the direction of the Supreme Court about cases related to sexual violence)
The elderly man in Pune got prison 10 years for recurring rape
