TIRUCHY: The District Fast Track Mahila Court in Tiruchy on Saturday convicted and sentenced a 50-year-old year man to undergo 20 years imprisonment for impregnating a minor girl.
According to the prosecution, the accused Rajagopal of Nadupatti village in Thuraiyur taluk developed clandestine intimacy with a 16-year-old minor girl, after preventing her wedding on the ground of it being a minor marriage with another boy in February 2018.
Even as the minor girl was admitted to the children’s home, operated by the district child line, she after some months developed stomach pain.
The poor girl was then rushed to the Government hospital where doctors examined her and declared that she was in the family way with four months pregnancy. The girl then told the authorities that due to the illegal intimacy with the accused, she had become pregnant.Based on a complaint, the All Women police arrested Rajagopal and filed a case against him before the Mahila court here.
On completion of the case, the Judge Mahilendhi convicted and sentenced the accused to undergo ten years imprisonment for each of the two sections under POCSO Act and also slapped a fine of Rs 2,000 for each count. The Judge directed that the sentences would run concurrently. The accused remitted the fine amount immediately in court.
