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The Special Court for the proceedings of cases registered nether the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act successful Coimbatore connected Monday sentenced a 67-year-old antheral to beingness imprisonment for impregnating a insignificant miss successful 2019.
Special tribunal justice T. Bagavathiammal awarded the punishment to Sheik Baba, who hails from a residential country adjacent Mettupalayam.
The lawsuit pertains to repeated intersexual battle by Baba connected a insignificant miss aged 15, who lived successful his neighbourhood, successful 2019. The antheral sexually assaulted the miss connected aggregate occasions for astir six months erstwhile her parents were distant for work.
The intersexual battle came to airy aft the miss was recovered large and she disclosed the ordeal to her mother. The genitor lodged a ailment astatine the All Women Police Station (AWPS), Thudiyalur. The constabulary arrested Baba connected December 10, 2019.
The tribunal recovered Baba blameworthy of offences nether Sections 450, 376 (3), 506(2) of the Indian Penal Code, 5(l), (j)(ii) work with 6 of POCSO Act. He was awarded beingness imprisonment with a full good of ₹25,000. The tribunal ordered the State authorities to wage a compensation of ₹5 lakh to the survivor. AWPS Inspectors Meenambigai, Ananda Nayaki and Indrani Sobhia investigated and handled the lawsuit for trial.
Five years jailhouse word for intersexual assault
In a abstracted case, the POCSO tribunal connected Monday sentenced L. Subramaniyan 39, of Dhanalakshmi Nagar astatine Vilankurichi successful Coimbatore to 5 years of imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old miss known to his family, successful 2021.
Subramaniyan was arrested based connected a ailment lodged astatine the AWPS, Coimbatore East, successful August 2021. The tribunal recovered him blameworthy for offences nether Sections 9(n),(l) work with 10 of POCSO Act and 506(1) of IPC. The tribunal besides slapped a full good of ₹20,000 connected the convict. Inspector A. Dowlathnisha investigated the case.
