Girl rape case: HC upholds life term to father

A division bench of justices R Subbiah and Jagadish Chandira while confirming the order of Sessions Judge for Mahila Court Madurai, said, “We feel remorse to observe that no words of solace and comfort, no amount of compensation and no amount of punishment to the accused can undo the damage done to the child and her innocence. We hope and believe that time, the great healer, will restore her back to normalcy.” 

“At the same time, we could only observe that given the nature and magnitude of the offence committed by the accused, even though we feel that the sentence imposed on the accused is inadequate, we could not also enhance the sentence imposed than the one our legislators have indicated under the POSCO Act for the offences punishable under Section 5 (l) and 6 thereof. Therefore, we are only left with the option to confirm the judgment passed by the trial court,” the bench said. 

On May 30, 2015, when the victim was in her aunt’s house, the accused called her to come home to have food prepared by her mother. The aunt of the victim also asked her to go to her house to have food as requested by her father. But when she went to her house along with the accused around 11 pm, the accused forcibly pushed her inside a room and assaulted her repeatedly.