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KOTA: A POCSO court in Jhalawar on Wednesday sentenced a man to life and fined Rs 70,000 for repeatedly raping his seven-year-old daughter in 2017.

POCSO court – II sentenced Mohammad Rayees, a resident of Jhalawar city, to life term in jail till natural death for repeatedly raping his daughter at his home, public prosecutor, POCSO court, Jhalawar – II Lalchand Meena said.

The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) rescued the minor from her house in December 2017 and during counselling she revealed her plight that her father repeatedly raped her at her house as she had lost her mother while she was only two months old.

On a report by CWC, a rape case was lodged under sections of IPC and POCSO Act against Rayees on December 1, 2017 in mahila police station.

The POCSO court -II special judge Aneesh Dadhich held the man guilty of rape of his minor daughter under sections of POCSO Act and IPC and convicted him.

The POCSO court also imposed total fine of Rs. 70,000 under sections of IPC and POCSO Act, Meena added.

During the trial of the case, statements of 26 witnesses were recorded and 51 documents were produced before the court, the PP said.

The grandmother of the rape survivor, with who the minor lived along with her father after death of her mother, told the court that her son had committed a disgusting and shameful crime and she no longer wanted to hear his name and refused to say anything further, he said.

The rape survivor first disclosed her ordeal to an anganwadi worker where she would go for pre-primary classes.

(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)

