ALAPPUZHA: City's additional district and sessions court awarded life term to a 50-year-old HIV positive man for raping his daughter.

According to the judgement pronounced by judge SH Panchapakesan on Monday, the life term shall mean imprisonment for the remainder of his natural life and the court has also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on the accused under section 376(2)(f) of the IPC.

The accused was also sentenced to undergo imprisonment for ten years and to pay a fine of Rs 1 lakh.

If he failed to pay the fine, he should undergo simple imprisonment for two years under section 376(2)(n) of the IPC. The substantive portion of the sentence shall run concurrently, the judgement read.

Additional public prosecutor C Vidhu said it was an anganwadi worker, which brought the incident to the light in 2013.

"The victim was 19-years-old then and she told the anganwadi worker that she was being raped by her father since her childhood days. Following this, the anganwadi worker approached Kudumbashree Mission.

Following it, the police had registered a case and arrested the accused person.

The accused has two children- a daughter and a son.

The accused contracted the disease while working in Mumbai. His wife died of AIDS in October 2012. However, he continued to rape his daughter and she also got infected with the virus," said C Vidhu.

"Considering the type of abuse, the gravity of the offences and the severity of the mental or physical harm or injury suffered by the victim; the expenditure incurred or likely to be incurred on her medical treatment for physical and mental health; loss of educational opportunity, I am of the view that this is a fit case, in which, a reasonable compensation as scheduled in the

Victim Compensation Scheme, 2014, can be awarded. As the accused is life convict suffering from HIV positive, there is seldom chance for the realisation of the said fine amount from him. So the court here by makes a recommendation to the District Legal Service Authority,

for taking a judicious decision for the fixation of quantum of compensation to be awarded under the victim compensation scheme," the judgement read.