Kanpur: Bail plea of minor girl’s rape accused rejected

KANPUR: In charge of special judge of POCSO Act court, Kanpur Nagar Satyendra Nath Tripathi on Thursday rejected the bail application of one Shanu alias Shahnawaz, who has been arrested for raping a minor girl in Bajaria police circle.
According to the prosecution story, complainant Mohd Faisal’s sister was alone in her house on January 21. Shanu jumped in his house and physically exploited the girl with a pistol-point. He also threatened the girl that he would kill her brothers if she would tell anyone about the incident to anyone.
He later ran away from the house before the survivor’s mother could reach there. The girl later narrated the story to her mother and brother.
According to additional district government counsel (ADGC) Sushil Kumar Verma, the defence counsel pleaded before the court that the complainant had taken a sum of Rs 50,000 as loan from the accused on different dates. Since the complainant did not want to return his money, he had fabricated this story and implicated him. He was innocent and has no criminal history, therefore, bail should be granted to him.
The ADGC strongly opposed the deliberations and said the accused had physically exploited a minor girl on pistol-point. He had also threatened to kill her brothers if she would tell the incident to anyone. The charges levelled against him were of serious nature, therefore, his bail should be rejected.
The presiding officer in his order observed that the charges levelled against the alleged accused were of serious nature and there was no sufficient ground for bail. Therefore, the bail application of Shanu alias Shahnawaz was being rejected.
Parole rejected : The presiding judge also rejected the parole application of accused Golu Singh, who had sought parole on the ground of high court directives for jails in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. He has been accused of physically exploiting a minor girl.
The accused in his application had submitted that he was a heart patient and was in the jail since May 1, 2020.There were strong apprehensions that he could be infected from Covid-9 in over-crowded jails. His regular bail application was pending at Allahabad high court, but due to corona pandemic hearing could not take place.
The high court had passed an order to release the jail birds on parole. In view of that, he should be released on parole and he assures the court that he would not misuse the parole and comply with the court’s directives, it was pleaded. Moreover, he would surrender before the court when his parole period is over. Therefore, he should be granted five-month-long parole.
The presiding judge in his order observed that the accused himself had stated that his bail application was pending in high court. The offence (of physically exploiting a minor girl) committed by him was of serious nature. His case did not come under the ambit of the high court’s order regarding parole. Hence, his parole application was being rejected.