AJMER: A Pocso courtroom in Ajmer sentenced six remaining accused within the infamous 1992 Ajmer rape and blackmail case to life imprisonment on Tuesday. The courtroom additionally imposed a penalty of Rs 5 lakh on every of the convicts. The Rs 30 lakh collected from the six convicts will likely be distributed equally to the rape survivors.
Pocso courtroom decide Ranjan Singh additionally ordered compensation to be paid to the rape survivors by directing the district authorized support authority to deposit Rs 7 lakh within the financial institution accounts of every of them inside 30 days of receiving a duplicate of the judgment.For survivors who do not need a checking account, the authority has been directed to open accounts and deposit compensation.
“Although the ache of the rape survivors is not going to finish, a few of their ache will subside,” the decide stated in his order. The order acknowledged that the nationwide authorized support authority has mounted compensation in crimes in opposition to minors from Rs 4 lakh to Rs 7 lakh. On this case, the crime in opposition to the accused has been confirmed in courtroom and the rape survivors have confronted extreme bodily and psychological stress. Subsequently, Rs 7 lakh compensation has been ordered.
The case, which had been on for 32 years, concerned a complete of 18 accused, with 12 of them being awarded life phrases by the trial courtroom in 1998. The Rajasthan excessive courtroom later diminished their sentences to 12 years in jail and acquitted 4 of them in 2001, whereas the Supreme Court docket additional diminished the sentence to 10 years. One of many accused dedicated suicide and one convict escaped whereas on parole and Interpol issued a purple discover in opposition to him.
The six people sentenced on Tuesday have been Nafees Chisty, Naseem Chisty, alias Tarzan, Iqbal Bhati, Saleem Gani Chisty, Sohail Gani Chisty and Sayeed Jameer Hussain. They’d initially fled throughout trial and had been declared absconders. They ultimately surrendered one after the other, with Sohail Gani being the final to offer himself up, after 29 years.
The prosecution workforce, led by extra director of prosecution Virendra Singh Rathore, labored tirelessly to deliver the remaining accused to justice. “Our workforce labored day and evening to get justice for the rape survivors on this heinous case; right now we really feel relieved,” Rathore stated, including, “The accused tried to learn from the lengthy length of the case however our workforce labored to place all of the items of proof collectively.”
The case first got here to mild in Might 1992 when an area newspaper reported the rapes and blackmailing of faculty and school women in Ajmer. It was revealed {that a} scholar was initially drugged, raped and photographed at a farmhouse on the outskirts of the town.
