The Delhi High Court has upheld the 10-year jail term of a man for raping and sodomising a four-year-old girl known to him, observing that perpetrators of sexual offences on innocent children are "psychosocial deviants" who do not deserve any leniency.
Justice C Hari Shankar endorsed the findings of the trial court that there was no reason for the child's mother to wrongly implicate him especially as she regarded him as her brother.
The incident took place in November 2013, after the child's mother performed the 'Bhai Duj' ceremony with the accused.
The high court dismissed the man's appeal against the conviction and sentencing by the trail court in May 2015 and said the decision does not call for any interference.
"Perpetrators of sexual offences on innocent children are psychosocial deviants, who cannot lay any claim to leniency. It is in the order of nature, and is the sacred right of every living being to blossom from infancy, to childhood, to adolescence and, finally, to adulthood. This order of nature is thrown into violent disarray by the sexual predators of children," it said.
It added that the "innocence of the child who had barely savoured the first fragrance of childhood, let alone adolescence, was brutally plundered by the man, the deviancy of his act being augmented by the fact that he chose to sodomise her."
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