West Bengal: Man Gets 7-Year Rigorous Imprisonment For Raping Minor Daughter

KOLKATA: A distinct court docket at Jangipur in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Friday sentenced a person, convicted of raping his minor daughter, to seven years of rigorous imprisonment (RI). The court docket additionally imposed a monetary penalty of Rs 1,00,000 at the convict. In the development of non-payment of the penalty quantity, his imprisonment time period might be prolonged by means of yet another 12 months.

At the similar time, the pass judgement on of the particular court docket directed the West Bengal executive to pay a repayment of Rs 2,00,000 to the sufferer. The convict is Bablu Sheikh, who used to be arrested in 2017 following proceedings filed in opposition to him by means of his spouse Sajera Biwi accusing him of raping their very own daughter, who used to be 15 years outdated then.

Sajera Biwi, in her criticism, stated that her husband raped their minor now not as soon as, however a number of occasions, following which the daughter become ill. The criticism used to be filed on June 14, 2017, and at the similar day, Bablu Sheikh used to be arrested.

A chronic trial procedure endured for the following few years, and the statements of 12 witnesses have been recorded. The public prosecutors sought lifestyles imprisonment for the convict. However, on Friday, the pass judgement on of the particular court docket remanded him to seven years of imprisonment.

During the trial procedure within the topic, Sajera Biwi was a adverse witness or even tried to switch the remark that she recorded with the police whilst submitting the criticism to save lots of her husband.

However, the sufferer caught to her remark until the tip and endured accusing her father of the heinous crime. West Bengal were within the nationwide headlines incessantly all the way through the previous couple of months over circumstances of rape and rape and homicide in several wallet of the state, with the sufferers being minors in lots of such circumstances.

The maximum talked-about case within the topic used to be that of the brutal rape and homicide of a junior physician of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital throughout the sanatorium premises in August closing 12 months.