Srinagar: After 11 years of the commission of the crime, a city court has convicted a man from Soura Srinagar for raping a 14-year-old girl.
Terming the heinous act as “crime against society”, 2nd Additional Session Judge Srinagar, Renu Dogra Gupta after hearing the case said that the court is of the considered opinion that the prosecution has successfully proved the guilt of the accused beyond any reasonable doubt.
The accused is liable to be convicted for the offence punishable under Sections 376 of RPC. Subsequently, the court ordered the accused to be taken into judicial custody in Central Jail Srinagar and ordered listing of the case for quantum of punishment on Wednesday.
According to the prosecution, the father of the victim child took the minor girl for medical check-up after she complained of abdominal pain in 2012. Upon tests conducted by the doctors, she was declared pregnant.
The complainant said that upon enquiry by him and his wife, the minor disclosed that the one Irshad Ahmad Malik of Kokernag had raped her several times in 2012. The accused resided in their neighbourhood as a tenant.
Subsequently, a case under Section 376 RPC was registered in Police Station Soura.
The court relying on police investigation and hearing the parties said that it is established that the accused at the time of committing heinous crime of rape of the minor girl was major, married person.
The victim used to go to the rented house to play with the younger brother of the accused who was also putting up with them at that time.
“The accused had gagged her mouth and committed heinous and barbaric crime of rape with her there and also threatened her to not disclose the act to anyone,” the court said and convicted him for the offence under 376 RPC (rape).
The accused being a major and married person, the court said, was fully aware of the consequences of his “barbaric act”. The crime of this nature against the child girl, is definitely a crime against the society, said the judge.
