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A 45-year-old temple priest, convicted by a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) tribunal successful Thiruvananthapuram for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old miss nether the pretext of performing rituals to “drive distant evil spirits,” has been sentenced to 2 beingness presumption (until death) and fined ₹2 lakh.
Bineesh, a autochthonal of Moothakunnam in Paravur, Ernakulam, was convicted and sentenced by Thiruvananthapuram Additional Sessions Court Judge Shibu M.P. successful a lawsuit dating backmost to 2019.
According to the prosecution, the accused was serving arsenic the clergyman astatine a temple in Kannammoola when the survivor, then a Class IX student who was suffering from exam-related anxiety, was brought to him by her parent for peculiar prayers.
The clergyman allegedly misled the genitor into believing that the kid was possessed and suggested performing definite rituals to exorcise the evil spirits. He past took the insignificant into a puja country attached to the temple premises and subjected the miss to intersexual abuse for galore days. Eventually, the kid revealed the details of the torture to a doc astatine a intelligence assistance camp.
The lawsuit was argued by peculiar nationalist authoritative Ajith Prasad J.K. on with lawyers Bindu V.C. and Durga R.C.
