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A 73-year-old antheral was sentenced to a full of 13 years of elemental imprisonment successful 2 cases for sexually abusing 2 ten-year-old girls. He has besides been ordered to wage good of ₹1.5 lakh.
The accused, who is bedridden, was brought to the tribunal successful an ambulance aft a aesculapian examination. Fast Track Special Court (POCSO) Thiruvananthapuram Judge Anju Meera Birla sentenced the accused to 10 years of elemental imprisonment and outgo of ₹10 lakh arsenic good successful 1 lawsuit and 3 years of imprisonment and outgo of ₹50,000 arsenic good successful the second.
Failure to wage the good volition entail an further one-and-a-half years of further imprisonment, the tribunal said.
Special Public authoritative R.S. Vijay Mohan appeared for the Prosecution.
The incidents pertaining to the lawsuit took spot during 2021-22. The lawsuit against the accused is that helium had molested the girls who came to his store to marque purchases. When their families came to cognize astir it, the begetter of 1 of the children and the uncle of the 2nd kid bushed up the accused.
The second filed a lawsuit against the 2 men. The defence argued that the intersexual maltreatment charges were trumped up against him to antagonistic his complaint.
But the tribunal did not judge this argument. The begetter of the kid told the tribunal that helium had beaten the accused for molesting his daughter.
