A Delhi court has sentenced a 28-year-old man to 10 years in jail for kidnapping and raping a six-year-old girl in 2013, observing that the "cruel" society would not let her forget the incident and she would never be able to erase from her psyche the memories of the sexual assault.
Special Judge Seema Maini convicted the man under Section 6 (committing aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act, and section 363 (kidnapping) of the Indian Penal Code.
The court also imposed Rs 15,000 fine on him.
It said, "In this happy world of the child victim in the instant case, convict has barged in like a giant Ogre. He broke her trust, duped her with a false promise of samosa and thereafter mangled her body. The victim child, oblivious of the terms 'sex, sexuality, sexual assault, and the sexual act', was brutally exposed to the same at such a tender age."
It, however, added, "Nevertheless, keeping in view that the penetrative sexual assault was not a penile one but an oral one and also that this is the first offence of the convict, who is also a young man of 28 years, the minimum sentence prescribed for the said offence under section 6 of the POCSO Act shall suffice..."