A Delhi court has sentenced a youth to seven years in jail on charges of kidnapping and raping a 17-year-old girl, trashing his plea that she had been dating him.
A Delhi court has sentenced a youth to seven years in jail on charges of kidnapping and raping a 17-year-old girl, trashing his plea that she had been dating him.
"Considering the nature of crime, I sentence the convict Salman to undergo imprisonment for a period of seven years," ruled Additional Session Judge Savita Rao, saying that the prosecution has proved its story that the boy raped the girl after she refused to marry him.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 3,000 on the convict.
The victim had submitted that her neighbours Salman, 21, and his step-brother Adil, who is still evading arrest, offered to drop her at home in their car when she was on her way back home on September 22, 2009.
They forcibly took her to some hutment in Trilok Puri of East Delhi where Salman insisted upon her to marry him, she added.
As she resisted his offer, he kept her in his captivity for four days during which he raped her twice.
Salman, on the other hand, contended that the victim was his neighbour and was known to him for quite some time.
His counsel told the court that the girl met the boy on September 22 last year and asked him to marry her forthwith as she had left her home without intimating her parents.
She even threatened the boy that she would commit suicide if he refused to marry her.
The defence also stressed upon the fact that the girl was fully consenting party as she did not make any resistance at the time of incident of alleged abduction.
The court, however, trashed their contentions saying, "The conduct of the victim does not show that she was the consenting party."
"Only for the reason that she, under the threat, did not resist the attempt of the accused is not sufficient to establish her consent," the court ruled.
The prosecution had examined 16 witnesses to prove its case.
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