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  • MP man gets life imprisonment for raping five-year-old daughter

    By PTI
    BHOPAL: A special court in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal district has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping his five-year-old daughter.

    Special Additional Sessions Judge Kumudini Patel convicted the 40-year-old accused under section 376 (rape) and other relevant provisions of the Indian Penacl Code (IPC) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the prosecution said on Thursday.

    The court also imposed a fine of Rs 3,000 on the convict, it was stated.

    In its judgement on Wednesday, the court observed, “It is the social and legal duty of the father to protect his children, but this incident is totally against it.

    “The accused has not only acted against the nature, society and system of law, but also raped his own innocent five-year-old daughter who did not even have any knowledge about physical relations, and committed a painful and heinous act with her.”

    The incident came to light in May, 2019 when the girl’s mother reported the matter to the police, the prosecution said.

    According to the police complaint, the girl had confided in her mother that her father abused her whenever the woman was away at work.

    When the woman confronted her husband, he quarrelled with her and attempted to commit suicide by pouring petrol on himself.

    The prosecution stated that the girl’s medical reports also confirmed rape and injuries to private parts.

    The girl deposed against her father in the court, following which he was awarded life imprisonment on three counts, it was stated.

  • MP girl regains consciousness 10 days after building fall, names man for rape bid

    By PTI
    GWALIOR: A 22-year-old man has been booked for attempt to rape on the complaint of a 16-year-old girl, who regained consciousness on Monday nearly ten days after she was allegedly pushed off the second floor of a building here in Madhya Pradesh by the accused, police said.

    The girl, who fell unconscious after she landed on the ground, narrated her ordeal after she regained consciousness at a hospital, following which a case was registered against one Himmat Singh.

    No arrest is made so far, an officer said.

    The teenage girl is the neighbour of Himmat Singh who lives on the second floor of the building in Gwalior, said crime branch deputy Superintendent of Police Vijay Singh Badhoria.

    As per the complaint, the accused dragged the girl to a room and tried to force himself upon her, he said.

    “When the girl resisted, the accused thrashed her and threw her off his balcony.

    The girl passed out after she landed on the ground.

    She was spotted lying unconscious by some people, who informed her family members.

    The girl was then rushed to a hospital,” Badhorial added.

    The girl narrated her ordeal to her family members on Monday, who in turn, approached the police, the DSP said.

    The accused has been booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and under provisions of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, Badhoria said.

    The accused is on the run, he added.

  • MP twin shocker: Widow raped, iron rod inserted in private parts; 13-year-old raped and murdered

    Express News Service
    BHOPAL: Two horrific incidents of crime against women have been reported in Madhya Pradesh over the last 36 hours.

    While a middle-aged widow was raped and an iron rod inserted in her private parts by the accused in Sidhi district, a 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a grocery trader, who then murdered the minor in Khandwa district.

    In an incident, which is bound to revive chilling memories of the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape of Delhi, a 48-year-old widow was raped by a man with the help of three other men in the Amiliya area of Sidhi district on Saturday late night. 

    The middle-aged woman lost her husband four years back and has two sons working in Gujarat. She lives and runs a tea-shop in a hut located at a desolate place near the highway.

    The four men (who hail from a neighbouring village) barged into her hut on the pretext of having drinking water late on Saturday night.

    One of them then allegedly raped the widow, while the other three aided the alleged crime. The prime accused also put an iron rod in the woman’s private parts.

    On coming to know about the incident, the police rushed the woman to the Sidhi district hospital from where the doctors referred her to Sanjay Gandhi Medical College in Rewa district, where she is now stated out of danger.

    “All five men have been arrested and booked. They will be produced before the court on Tuesday. While the authorities will bear the entire expenditure of the woman’s medical treatment, Rs 1 lakh has been immediately released from the Red Cross to her family. Another Rs 3 lakh will be rendered to her under the state government’s victim compensation scheme,” Sidhi district SP Pankaj Kumawat said.

    In the other incident, the 45-year-old grocery trader raped the Class IX student girl who had gone to his shop to buy a packet of biscuits. To ensure that the matter didn’t become public, he strangled the minor to death.

    According to police sources, the trader packed the body in a bag with the help of his wife. However, a neighbour spotted it and alerted the girl’s family who rushed to the spot only to find their daughter dead. The accused and his wife, however, had managed to flee by then.

    As per the latest reports, the police said they have arrested the trader, but his wife is still on the run.