Bengaluru: The High Court has enhanced the quantum of punishment awarded by lower courts in respect of two convicts in two separate cases.
The two were convicted on charges of sexually assaulting minor girls.
In the first case, the court has enhanced the punishment awarded to Anjanappa, a convict, from two years and four months in jail to ten years imprisonment. He is in jail on charges of raping a six-year-old girl.
In another case, the High Court has enhanced the jail term of Vedamurthy, who had kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl.
His jail term awarded by the lower court of one year and six months has been enhanced to seven years by the high court.
The state government had filed a criminal appeal challenging lower court orders.
The prospection had argued that the punishment in such cases are a minimum of seven years to maximum of 10 years, but the lower courts were not be fair in awarding them the lesser punishment.
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