TNN | Nov 22, 2012, 12.56 AM IST
NEW DELHI: Relying on the testimony of the victim and her mother, a trial court has sentenced a man to one year rigorous imprisonment for sexually molesting his eight-year-old daughter.
Metropolitan magistrate Kiran Gupta dismissed the leniency plea by the central Delhi resident Jaipal saying, "The custodian of the child is the father on whom not only rests the responsibility of building character / career and upbringing of the child but he is also a vital part of her life. If the father himself is found guilty of such a heinous offence, no mitigating circumstances can be found to reduce the sentence."
On the night of May 18, 2011, when the child's mother had gone to the bathroom, Jaipal had sexually molested his sleeping daughter, said the prosecution. The mother had rushed back to the room on hearing her daughter's scream and saw what her husband was doing. On being caught, he had beaten up his wife and the victim and threatened to kill them if they disclosed the incident to anyone, it had added.
Jaipal, however, claimed that his wife had implicated him in the case as she wanted some property in her name.
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Metropolitan magistrate Kiran Gupta dismissed the leniency plea by the central Delhi resident Jaipal saying, "The custodian of the child is the father on whom not only rests the responsibility of building character / career and upbringing of the child but he is also a vital part of her life. If the father himself is found guilty of such a heinous offence, no mitigating circumstances can be found to reduce the sentence."
On the night of May 18, 2011, when the child's mother had gone to the bathroom, Jaipal had sexually molested his sleeping daughter, said the prosecution. The mother had rushed back to the room on hearing her daughter's scream and saw what her husband was doing. On being caught, he had beaten up his wife and the victim and threatened to kill them if they disclosed the incident to anyone, it had added.
Jaipal, however, claimed that his wife had implicated him in the case as she wanted some property in her name.
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