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Kadapa POCSO Court connected Wednesday (December 03) sentenced a antheral to beingness imprisonment and slapped a good of ₹10,000 for sexually assaulting a insignificant miss connected a moving bid six years ago, portion awarding ₹10.50 lakh compensation to the victim.
Kadapa POCSO Court Judge C. Praveen Kumar has ordered Guntakal Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) to wage the compensation magnitude to the girl. He besides recommended departmental enactment against the TTI (Travelling Ticket Inspector) who was connected work connected the day of the incident.
According to verdict, the convict chased and sexually assaulted an eight-year-old girl, who was travelling with her parents connected Rayalaseema Superfast Express, erstwhile she went to the toilet connected 27-01-2019. Hearing the girl’s screams, her parents, passengers and vendors rushed to the spot and recovered the miss bleeding owed to the assault. The passengers caught the perpetrator and handed him implicit to the TTI connected duty.
However, erstwhile the bid reached Kadapa Railway Station, helium jumped disconnected the bid and escaped. On the ailment of the victim’s mother, a lawsuit was registered astatine Secunderabad Railway Police Station (RPS) and transferred it to Kadapa RPS.
The lawsuit was filed nether Section 376(2) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and applicable provisions of the POCSO Act. Railway DSP (Retd) Ramesh investigated the lawsuit and filed a chargesheet. The accused was identified arsenic 28-year-old mason from Kadapa municipality Gali Ramprasad Reddy.
The condemnation resulted from the hard enactment by Kadapa RPS caput constable M. Nagaraju Naik, and coordinated efforts of POCSO Court Public Prosecutors Kommineni Venugopal and S. Rama Subbareddy argued the case.
