Dehradun. The courtroom of First Additional Sessions Judge Mahesh Chandra Kaushiva has convicted a faculty worker who raped a student learning in a boarding faculty in Dehradun and sentenced him to seven years of rigorous imprisonment and a high quality of Rs 15,000. The convict was sentenced to two years imprisonment in the 12 months 2023, after which he appealed. The prosecution had sought commutation of the convict’s sentence to life imprisonment, which was rejected by the courtroom.
According to Assistant District Government Advocate Arvind Kapil, a Delhi resident had filed a criticism at the metropolis police station on November 11, 2011, that his 13-12 months-previous son was learning in class seven in a boarding faculty in Dehradun. On 15 October 2011, throughout the Diwali holidays, he got here to Delhi together with his uncle. On 11 November 2011, his uncle dropped him in school and returned to Delhi. His acquaintance knowledgeable on cellphone that the son had run away from faculty and college worker Shakti Singh had raped him. When the household interrogated the son, he instructed that Shakti Singh had raped him and threatened to kill him if he protested. In this case, the metropolis Kotwali police registered a case in opposition to the accused and arrested him on 13 November 2011.
After spending 4 months in jail, the accused was launched on bail in March 2012. After the case went on in the courtroom for 11 years, the courtroom of Judicial Magistrate I Urvashi Rawat convicted the accused and sentenced him to two years of rigorous imprisonment and a high quality of Rs 10,000. The convict appealed on 25 September 2023, which the courtroom rejected and ordered to improve the sentence to seven years and a high quality of Rs 15,000. In case of non-cost of high quality, the convict can have to bear extra rigorous imprisonment of three months. The courtroom has directed him to seem on January 29.