Gwalior:
A 40-year-old man was sentenced to life imprisonment till death by a local court for raping a minor girl repeatedly for nearly a week after kidnapping her.
The sentence was pronounced yesterday to Ram Kishan for raping the 11-year-old girl after abducting her last year.
Pronouncing the verdict the judge said that the convict should spend rest of his life behind the bars.
"Any attack on women that violates her privacy always left a scar on her mind and after that leading life with that pang is as painful as death. Showing any sympathy towards such criminals is against the interest of the law and the society and such kind of crimes also affects the morality of the society. Therefore, such persons deserves a harsh punishment," the judgement said.
The accused, known to the victim's family, went to her residence on June 20 in search of her father's maternal uncle and stayed back. Next day, he lured the girl to a market for purchasing dresses and later took her to a forest and raped her.
After this he went to Rajasthan's Bara town along with her and sexually abused the minor again. Later Kishan brought her to Radhapura village in Madhya Pradesh and again raped her and subsequently dumped her in an agriculture field.
A week later, the victim was found by an old woman to whom she narrated the entire incident following which she was taken to her (victim's) residence. Her father then filed a report in the Mohna Police Station Shivpuri district.