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All the 12 accused persons chargesheeted for their engagement successful disrobing and assaulting a 42-year-old pistillate belonging to a Scheduled Tribe assemblage person been recovered blameworthy and sentenced to five-year rigorous imprisonment.
The Belagavi Additional 10th District and Sessions Court announced the verdict connected Wednesday. Judge H.S. Manjunath convicted each the 12 accused nether Section 235 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (corresponding to Section 258 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita).
The convicted persons are Basappa Naika (45), Raju Naika (52), Kempanna (52), Parvathi Basappa Naika (37), Yeallva Rudrappa Naika (67), Lakkappa Naika (26), Gangavva Basappa Walikar (62), Sangeetha Sadashiva Hegganaika (35), Santosh Naika 921), Sobha Raju Naika (49), Lakkavva Yellappa Naika (42), Shivappa Vannuri (53), each residents of Hosavantamuri village.
The incident
The incidental occurred connected December 11, 2023, successful Vantamuri colony of Belagavi district. The pistillate was assaulted earlier being tied to a rod and partially stripped aft her lad eloped with a girl. The girl’s engagement was scheduled connected December 11. But she eloped with a lad from the aforesaid colony connected the nighttime of December 10. The lad and the miss beryllium to the aforesaid community.
When her relatives realised that the miss had disappeared, they rushed to the boy’s house, ransacked it, and bushed up his mother. She was tied to a rod successful beforehand of her location and partially stripped. One of the villagers informed the constabulary who rescued the woman.
Subsequently the Kakathi Station Police had registered an FIR based connected the ailment lodged by the victim.
They were booked for offences punishable nether Sections 109, 114, 117, 143, 147, 148, 307, 323, 324, 326, 341, 342, 353, 354, 354B, 355, 392, 427, 452, 504, and 506 work with Sections 149, 34, and 37 of the Indian Penal Code, and Section 2(A) of the Prevention of Destruction and Loss of Property Act, 1981.
Transferred to CID
Considering the seriousness of the offence, the lawsuit was transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
The High Court of Karnataka had initiated suo motu proceedings and passed orders directing the competent tribunal to implicit the proceedings expeditiously wrong an outer bounds of 1 year. After the proceedings commenced successful the territory court, 45 witnesses were examined.
