A SPECIAL court on Friday sentenced a 45-year-old man to life imprisonment for repeatedly raping his 15-year-old daughter. The court also sentenced another man, an autorickshaw driver, to 20 years in prison for repeatedly raping the victim while she stayed at his house after fleeing home.

According to the victim’s deposition in court, in 2013, her father would touch her inappropriately whenever he found her alone at home. The victim had informed her mother about it. She told the court that her mother had confronted her father about it but he denied the incident. She told the court that her father had, thereafter, sexually abused her two-three times, fed up of which she ran away from home.

The girl then took shelter in an empty autorickshaw for the night. The owner and driver of the autorickshaw, however, approached her and told her that she should accompany him for her safety. The man then took her home where he lived with his three children and mother. The victim told the court that she later learnt that the man’s wife had run away. Promising her marriage, the man, too, repeatedly raped the victim.

The victim kept insisting about being brought back home and was finally dropped home by the autorickshaw driver in 2014. The victim was pregnant at the time. The victim’s mother, who had filed a missing complaint for her, took her to the police station. The police filed an FIR against the autorickshaw driver. The victim also informed the police about the sexual abuse by her father, after which both the men were arrested.

On Friday, the special court found both guilty of rape and under other relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.

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