A Delhi court has sent a 22-year- old youth to seven years in jail for raping and threatening a woman.
Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Kumar handed down the jail term to Southwest Delhi resident Rajender while holding him guilty of offences under sections 376 (rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC and also imposed a fine of Rs 40,000 on him.
The special fast track court, which decided the case in one year, has also directed the Delhi District Legal Aid Services to award appropriate compensation to the woman under the Victim Compensation Scheme floated by the government.
The judge rejected the contentions of the convict that the woman went to her house instead of police station after the incident, saying "I find nothing unusual in the victim going to her house first. One cannot expect every rape victim to straightaway go to police station and lodge complaint."
It also turned down the claim that the 21-year-old victim had falsely implicated the youth due to an earlier scuffle between them, saying "it is not believable that a girl would falsely implicate any innocent person in a grave offence like rape just for the reason that an altercation had taken place with her."
According to the prosecution, on the foggy morning of January 18, 2016, when the woman was walking towards a bus stand from her house to go to office, the accused caught hold of her from behind, gagged her and took her to the fields at a village near Dwarka.
It said when she raised an alarm, he threatened to kill her, adding that she tried to run away and cried for help but the accused dragged her to an isolated area and raped her.
During trial, the accused denied the allegations saying he was falsely implicated as he had an altercation with the woman two days before the incident and she was taking revenge by making the complaint.
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