Girl gets 3-month term for false rape case in Kashmir's Anantnag

While the country is witnessing the MeToo movement, a 19-year-old girl was sentenced to three months imprisonment for levelling false rape charges against a man in Kashmir's Anantnag.

Additional Sessions Judge Masarat Shaheen declared the sentence after the girl retracted charges of rape and abduction against Tajamul Nisar, during a trial in the fast track court.

The girl had filed a case of rape and abduction against Tajamul in Achabal police station in March this year. She later deposed before the magistrate reiterating the rape charges against the man. Following this, Tajamul was arrested, and later bailed out.

However, when the case was sent to the fast track court for trial, the girl retracted the statement prompting the prosecution to move an application under section 479A against the accuser. The court took a suo motu notice under Section 479 B and awarded the girls three months punishment.

Syed Suhail Haqanni, additional public prosecutor, said, "It is not child's play to come to court and implicate anyone falsely... One cannot play a trick to the court or judicial system or falsely implicate anyone for any ulterior motives.