Delhi court sends man to 5 years in jail for raping 11-year-old girl

A Delhi court has sentenced a man to five years in jail for raping an 11-year-old girl, saying modesty of a female is an intrinsic part of her persona and no person can barge into her privacy under any circumstances.

Additional Sessions Judge Seema Maini convicted Satish (24) under section 10 (aggravated sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and section 354 A (i) (physical contact involving unwelcome, explicit sexual overtures) and (ii) (demand for sexual favours) of the Indian Penal Code.

The court, said in its order: "The victim, a young girl of 11 years, is a female who was in her formative age at the time of commission of the offence by the convict. Trampling the child's body, sexually assaulting her and making a demand for undue sexual favours would surely have caused the child not just a mental shock and trauma at the relevant time, but would have and shall continue to haunt the child in the years to come."