Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 26: A Division Bench of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court comprising Justice Sanjay Dhar and Justice Rajesh Sekhri has upheld the life imprisonment to maternal grand-father for raping one year old grand-daughter in Udhampur district.
After hearing both the sides, Division Bench observed, “it is a case where the fence itself has eaten the crop. The appellant has committed an outrageous violence of highest order on the private person of a child victim. Nothing has improved even after more than a decade of “Nirbhaya”, adding “women also have the right to life and liberty. They also have the right to be respected and treated as equal citizens. Their honour and dignity cannot be touched or violated”.
“Women, in them, have many personalities combined. They are not playthings. Of late, crime against women in general and rape in particular is on the increase. It is a blot on the society and a sad reflection on the attitude of indifference of the society towards the violation of human dignity of the victims of sex crimes”, DB said, adding “therefore, courts shoulder a great responsibility while trying an accused on charges of rape. We do not find any illegality much less perversity in the well reasoned and lucid judgment of conviction and sentence propounded by trial court. Hence, the present appeal being devoid of merit is dismissed and the impugned judgment of conviction and order of sentence are upheld”.
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