PTI | Feb 2, 2012, 10.41PM IST
NEW DELHI: The post-crime trauma suffered by a teenage rape victim and her family members and the state's apathy to their plight has shocked a Delhi court, prompting it to order Rs one lakh as interim compensation to her.
Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau expressed shock after finding that the victim had tried to commit suicide by consuming acid, leading to replacement of her food pipe with an artificial one while her father suffered two heart attacks and her mother had to work as a maid to sustain the family with no state aid whatsoever.
"I'm shocked to observe that despite this pathetic state of the victim and her family, who, I find, are feeling a sense of physical and psychological isolation, no assistance has been provided to her by the state," the judge observed, ordering Delhi Government to award her the compensation, noting the vegetative state the victim has reduced to.
"The victim, who was hardly 14 year old at the time of incident, has now been virtually reduced to a vegetable existence after she consumed acid pursuant to the incident.
"Rape of a minor not only affects her but has also a devastative impact on her entire family, which equally suffers in silence as has happened in the present case," the court said.
The court's order came after the girl's mother approached it along with her daughter to narrate their woes in the wake of the girl's rape and to apprise it of their inability and unwillingness to fight the case and seek justice.
Link: Rape victim's post-crime trauma, state's apathy 'shocks' courtAdditional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau expressed shock after finding that the victim had tried to commit suicide by consuming acid, leading to replacement of her food pipe with an artificial one while her father suffered two heart attacks and her mother had to work as a maid to sustain the family with no state aid whatsoever.
"I'm shocked to observe that despite this pathetic state of the victim and her family, who, I find, are feeling a sense of physical and psychological isolation, no assistance has been provided to her by the state," the judge observed, ordering Delhi Government to award her the compensation, noting the vegetative state the victim has reduced to.
"The victim, who was hardly 14 year old at the time of incident, has now been virtually reduced to a vegetable existence after she consumed acid pursuant to the incident.
"Rape of a minor not only affects her but has also a devastative impact on her entire family, which equally suffers in silence as has happened in the present case," the court said.
The court's order came after the girl's mother approached it along with her daughter to narrate their woes in the wake of the girl's rape and to apprise it of their inability and unwillingness to fight the case and seek justice.
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