Security guard gets 10 years in jail for raping MNC executive

PUNE: A sessions court here on Tuesday sentenced a security guard to 10 years rigorous imprisonment for raping a 29-year-old executive from a multinational company at the Sahara group's Aamby Valley resort in Lonavla on December 10, 2010.




Additional sessions judge R V Adone held the accused, Dharmendrakumar Rambabu Choudhary alias Singh (29), guilty of offences under Sections 376 (1), which refers to rape, 450 (house trespass with intent to commit an offence punishable with life imprisonment), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (2), which refers to criminal intimidation, of the Indian Penal Code. The court sentenced Choudhary to 10 years for the rape offence and handed out three-year rigorous imprisonment for each offence under the other three sections. All the sentences are to run concurrently. The court also imposed a total fine of Rs 11,000 on the convict. Of this, Rs 7,000 is to be paid to the survivor as compensation towards the mental trauma suffered by her, the court ordered.

Additional public prosecutor Leena Pathak told TOI, “The survivor was working with an MNC in Delhi and had visited her parents in Mumbai for a couple of days before joining her colleagues for a conference at the Aamby Valley resort on December 9, 2010. On returning to her room around midnight, she went to sleep forgetting to lock her room from inside. Choudhary moved into her room during the wee hours on December 10, 2010 and raped her at knife-point.”

Pathak said, “The survivor she was initially examined by a medical officer on the panel of the resort, followed by another medical examination in Mumbai. A third test was conducted at the Sassoon hospital after an FIR was lodged with the Paud police on December 12, 2010.”

The prosecutor said, “Choudhary was arrested on January 14, 2011, after the survivor identified his voice sample collected during the police probe. Besides, Choudhary had attempted suicide during the collection of the voice sample and a separate case was registered against him for this act.”

Pathak said, “The evidence recorded by the three medical officers proved crucial in corroborating the offence as they confirmed the findings relating to bite and injury marks found on the survivor’s body.”

Judge Adone observed that instead of performing his duty to protect people visitng the resort, the accused “committed a severe and aggravated offence in the form of rape in inhuman and grave manner on a helpless survivor.”