Pune: A special court on Tuesday convicted and sentenced a 30-year-old Chinchwad resident to 21 years' rigorous imprisonment (RI) for raping his four-year-old niece near the railway tracks behind Nagsennagar settlement on October 2, 2018. The convict had entered the Chinchwad police jurisdiction in violation of an externment order before kidnapping and raping the girl, police said. Special judge K P Kshirsagar observed in his judgment that the survivor had broken into tears on seeing the accused when she was asked to identify him during the test identification parade.
She was not a tutored witness and her conduct was natural and she had given rational answers to questions posed to her in the testimony. Her evidence inspires confidence as it is truthful and reliable and corroborates with the evidence given by other witnesses, the judge said. The judge referred to the overall circumstances and observed that the survivor, her family members and other witnesses did not have a motive to implicate the accused.
"The evidence of all prosecution witnesses is unblemished and is free from any kind of doubts. The accused committed the crime to get pleasure by forceful sexual assault," the judge said and observed that the accused had failed to offer an explanation to incriminating circumstances against him. The prosecution had brought all circumstances on record to show his complicity in the rape beyond reasonable doubt, the judge added.
The judge found the accused guilty of an offence un.