Father gets life term for raping 4-yr-old daughter

A Delhi court has sentenced a man to life term for raping his four-year-old daughter, whom he had abandoned along with his wife and their three other children immediately after her birth, saying that he 'simply deserves no leniency'.

"This is a case of rape where a father has committed rape upon his own daughter aged four years. In my view, the convict simply does not deserve any leniency," Additional Sessions Judge Surinder Kumar Sharma said. The court was left aghast that the convict, a resident of Seemapuri in north east Delhi who had abandoned his family merely ten days after the birth of his youngest daughter, raped her on the very night he returned after four years.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on him. "Keeping in view the facts and circumstances of the case, the convict is sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life for the offence punishable under section 376 (rape) of IPC."

The case dates back to April 4, 2009, when the convict had returned to Delhi from Ahmedabad, four years after he had abandoned his wife and their four daughters merely ten days after the birth of the youngest in 2005.

As he returned to Delhi and stayed at his brother's residence, his wife came to meet him in a bid to persuade him to return home. But as he did not budge, she returned home leaving the four daughters behind. The man began drinking liquor on the roof of the house, where his youngest daughter came and slept on his bed, while his three other daughters stayed downstairs.

The victim's three sisters rushed upstairs after hearing the cries of their youngest sibling late in the night. As they rushed upstairs they saw their father while their sister lay beside him, bleeding and crying. The child was rushed to the GTB Hospital in an ambulance and had to be treated in hospital's Intensive Care Unit to save her life. A case was registered against him at Seemapuri police station.

The court rejected his contention that he was falsely implicated in the case as his wife wanted to divorce him so that she could marry somebody else, saying 'no mother would stoop so low'.

"It is very difficult to believe that a mother would stoop so low, so as to implicate her husband in the rape case of his own daughter just for taking divorce from him. Convict has also not been able to prove on record that his wife wanted to marry somebody else," ASJ Sharma said.

The court noted that witnesses fully supported the prosecution case and said that it was clear that witnesses including the victim, her two sisters and mother were consistent and corroborative.

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