Rajkot: A 35-year-old rickshaw driver convicted for raping a three-year-old girl was sentenced to life imprisonment till his last breath by a special Pocso court in Amreli on Wednesday.
Special Pocso judge RR Dave sentenced Raju alias Rajukdi Mangrolia who had raped the girl in May last year.
The court also directed the government to pay a compensation of Rs 15 lakh to rape survivor and ordered it to deposit Rs 10 lakh out of this amount in a fixed deposit of a nationalized bank till the girl attains the age of 18. The interest from this amount can be used for her studies, clothes, medicine and other expenses.
Mangrolia had abducted a girl at around 2am from her hut in the slums on the bank of Navli river in Savarkundla town and abandoned her after committing the crime in Jhinjhuda village bus stand, four kms away. A passer-by spotted the girl in an extremely injured condition and called a 108 EMRI ambulance.
Police were able to nab Mangroli based on his description given by the survivor’s brother who saw him abducting her.