A youth has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for raping a 16-year-old girl, making a video clip of the act and blackmailing the victim for several years.
Fast Track Court Judge Rajneesh Kumar yesterday sentenced the youth, a resident of village Bilai under Haldaur police station, to seven years imprisonment for raping the minor girl of the same village in 2013.
A fine of Rs 21,000 was also imposed on him.
The court also sentenced the youth's parents and one of his friends to one year imprisonment each for conspiring with the convict in the crime.
According to the prosecution, the convict threatened to make public the video clip and raped the victim several times.
The victim's father, on being informed about the incident by his daughter, approached the convict and his parents but was threatened by them.
He, however, filed a complaint with the police, following which an FIR was lodged under Section 376 (rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC against the four.
Additional Public Prosecutor Mohd Iqrar had sought maximum
punishment for the convict while arguing that he does not deserve any leniency and that he went to the woman's house under the influence of liqour and attacked her.
The man had denied the allegations against him and claimed he was falsely implicated by the woman.
The court, however, relied on the testimony of the victim while observing that "a person with so much trauma cannot be expected to state the incident in a parrot-like manner".
"Such like omissions/contradictions are bound to happen. In the instant case, there are factual and circumstantial evidence which prove the complicity...(of the convict). As such no value can be pinned on insignificant omissions/ contradictions," it said.
