A particular fast-track court docket in Nuh has sentenced a 27-year-old man to twenty years of rigorous imprisonment for kidnapping and raping a then 14-year-old lady in Ferozpur Jhirka in October 2022, police stated on Saturday. The conviction got here regardless of the sufferer and two eyewitnesses turning hostile throughout trial.
The court docket of extra session choose Ashu Sanjeev Tinjan additionally imposed an total nice of ₹70,000 after convicting Mohammad Saad alias Ekka, 27, below sections 366, 450 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code and part 6 of the Safety of Kids from Sexual Offences Act.
Vijay Sehrawat, Nuh public prosecutor, stated the sufferer, who was additionally the complainant, and two eyewitnesses, her members of the family who rescued her, “had turned hostile most likely because of concern of the convict and his household however even then prosecution managed to make sure his conviction because of robust forensic proof.”
“Vaginal swabs collected in the midst of medical examination of the sufferer was despatched for forensic evaluation which semen was discovered. Its DNA profile was positively matched with Saad’s blood pattern collected after a court docket order which established past any doubt that he was the one who was raped the sufferer,” Sehrawat stated.
Krishan Kumar, public relations officer of Nuh police, stated the incident happened at Mahu village on October 21, 2022, when the accused allegedly kidnapped the lady from her house and raped her. An FIR was registered at Ferozpur Jhirka on October 22, 2022, and he was instantly arrested.
