After getting convicted in 5-year-old girl’s rape case, one of the accused attacks journalists
Saurabh Kumar
New Delhi : POCSO court convicted two men on Saturday for raping a five-year-old girl inĀ east Delhi in 2013, saying the case had shaken the collective conscience of the society.
After the hearing when the convicts were been taken out of the Karkardooma court and media was trying to take their footage, one of the two convicts, attacked journalists and tried to snatch their mobile phones also.
Additional sessions judgeĀ Naresh Kumar Malhotra convictedĀ Manoj Shah andĀ Pradeep Kumar in the case, saying that the child experienced exceptional depravity and extreme brutality.
Shah and Kumar had raped the girl atĀ Gandhi Nagar area and shoved objects in her private parts on April 15, 2013. They had fled after committing the crime and leaving the girl at Shah’s room after believing her to be dead. The child was rescued 40 hours later on April 17, 2013
“Collective conscience of the society was shaken. In our society, minor girls are worshipped as goddess,” the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court said. “The child, who was just 5 years old, experienced exceptional depravity and extreme brutality.”
The father of the victim expressed satisfaction on finally getting justice for his daughter.