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Madhya Pradesh: 14-Year-old boy sentenced for rape of minor girl

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Ujjain | In an extraordinarily fast-paced trial, a juvenile court in Ujjain convicted and sentenced a 14-year-old boy on charges of raping a minor girl, within seven hours. Juvenile justice board judge Tripti Pande awarded two years’ imprisonment to the accused, yesterday after wrapping up the trial in seven hours, government advocate Deependra Malu said today.

The crime took place on August 15 and the entire process, from registration of the case to pronouncement of judgement, was completed in five days, police said.

“The case diary was submitted in the court at 10.45 am yesterday and the judgement, after trial, was pronounced around 6 pm,” Mr. Malu said.

“This is probably for the first time, after the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act came into effect in 2012, that a judgement in a rape case of a minor has been given in such a short duration,” he said.

While pronouncing the sentence, Mr. Malu said, the judge observed, “The tendency of sexual offences against children is rising at a fast pace in society. To correct such a perverted psychological condition, this boy needs to be sent to two years’ imprisonment.”

The court ordered sending the boy to a remand home in Madhya Pradesh’s Seoni district for serving the sentence.

Ujjain superintendent of police Sachin Atulkar said the girl was playing with other children on August 15 at the residence of the accused at Ghatiya village in the district when the boy, taking advantage of the situation, raped her.

The victim later disclosed the incident to her parents who filed a complaint at the Ghatiya police station.

Mr Atulkar formed a team to probe the case and the boy was subsequently nabbed from his relative’s place in Rajasthan and brought back to Ujjain.

The sentence was awarded under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the POCSO Act, he said.

Mr. Atulkar said the judgement will send a positive message among citizens.

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Delhi HC asks police to file report on plea against Shashi Tharoor’s bail

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New Delhi | The Delhi High Court today asked the Delhi Police to file a status report on a plea challenging anticipatory bail given to Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in a case related to his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death.
Justice RK Gauba asked the Delhi Police’s standing counsel (criminal) Rahul Mehra to appear in the matter and listed the plea on September 25.

“The state shall file a status report inspecting the case against the backdrop of which the present controversy is raised,” the court said. The court was hearing the petition filed by a Delhi-based lawyer Deepak Anand challenging a trial court’s July 5 order granting anticipatory bail to Shashi Tharoor in the matter.

The petitioner argued that after filing of the charge sheet, the trial court took cognizance and issued summons to Mr. Tharoor. Instead of appearing before the court concerned, the Congress leader moved the court of an additional sessions judge which “erroneously” granted him bail, he said.

Ms. Pushkar was found dead in a suite of a luxury hotel in the city on the night of January 17, 2014. The couple was staying in the hotel, as the official bungalow of Shashi Tharoor was being renovated at that time.

Mr. Tharoor has been charged under sections 498A (husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty) and 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), but has not been arrested in the case.

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