A court in Delhi on Monday sentenced a 40-year-old man to 14 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping an eight-year-old girl, PTI reported. The court also fined Rajvinder Singh Rs 20,000, and said that the girl will be given Rs 3 lakh compensation as per the provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
“It needs to be kept in mind that a penetrative sexual assault/rape are offences, which are the outcome of perverted and evil minds of people who not just lack sensitivity and emotions but are carriers of animal streak in them,” Additional Sessions Judge Seema Maini said while announcing the quantum of punishment for North Delhi resident Singh.
“Her suffering at the hands of the convict cannot be expressed in words,” Maini said, adding that the girl has been “left to lead a life devoid of life”.
The incident took place on August 18, 2014, when Singh took the the girl to his house and raped her. Pleading innocence, Singh said that the girl’s parents often quarrelled with him and had implicated him in the case. The court, however, dismissed Singh’s assertions as flimsy and refused to show him any leniency when he said that his wife had passed away and he had to take care of his four young children.
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