Elderly sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a minor in Rajasthan
Jaipur (IANS). A POCSO court in Rajasthan sentenced a 72-year-old man to life imprisonment for raping a four-year-old minor girl in Kota district last December.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on the convict Gopal Lal Kani, a resident of Jhalrapatan area of Jhalawar district.
The girl’s parents were initially hesitant to file a complaint.
But when he had to take his daughter to the hospital, the doctor convinced the parents to file a complaint.
The complaint was filed on December 27, 2022, five days after the crime took place.
The accused was arrested the next day and has since been in judicial custody.
The matter was heard expeditiously and a charge sheet was filed on February 27 this year.
POCSO judge Deepak Dubey wrote a poem appreciating the mother’s courage and said, “I salute you mother, if you had not read my pain, I would have had to bear this burden silently for the rest of my life. If you had not shown courage, then who would have been a mother?” Would have heard the pain of this innocent.
