Patna: Youth sentenced to life imprisonment for repeatedly raping and blackmailing railway officer’s minor daughter

PATNA: A special POCSO court in Patna on Tuesday sentenced one Mukesh Kumar (21) to life imprisonment for repeatedly raping and blackmailing a minor daughter of an Indian Railway officer in state capital since April 2017.
The convict at the time of occurrence of incident for first time on April 12, 2017 was a servant of a government doctor who is presently posted as civil surgeon in one of the districts in north Bihar. He was a native of Nawkothi in Begusarai district.
The incident had taken place inside the doctor’s flat at Bahadurpur Housing Colony in Patna. The victim’s family was a neighbour. An FIR was lodged with Women’s police station in Patna on February 8 last year.
Special public prosecutor Suresh Chandra Prasad said special court of ADJ-I Ajay Kumar Srivastava also imposed altogether a fine of Rs 20,000 under Section 6 and Section 14 (3) of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
“The court also ordered the district legal services authority to compensate the victim according to provisions of law,” he said.
Prasad said the victim was studying outside Bihar and had returned after completion of matriculation examination at her father’s flat at Bahadurpur under Agamkuan police station area in Patna in April 2017.
“On April 12, Mukesh called her to the doctor’s flat on pretext that ‘aunty’ (doctor wife) was calling her. He raped the minor girl and clicked her obscene photographs following which Mukesh started blackmailing her,” he said.
Prasad said victim kept matter hidden from her parents for several months out of fear until one day Mukesh rang victim’s father and told him that her daughter had fallen in bad hand.
“Till then the minor had again left Bihar for her further studies but Mukesh used to blackmail her and had also created her fake Facebook profile in which he had posted her obscene photographs. Mukesh had attempted to misguide her father so that he calls her back to Patna,” he said.
Prasad said it was then that the official sought details from the daughter and the matter opened following which an FIR was lodged.
The special PP said seven witnesses were examined during the course of trial and obscene photographs of the minor victim was also recovered from a pen drive and cellphone in possession of Mukesh.
“These two things were produced as exhibits before the court along with a letter jointly singed by doctor and his wife that they had scolded Mukesh after coming to know about incident,” he said.