Man sentenced to life imprisonment for raping minor daughter in Maharashtra

A first information report (FIR) in the case was registered at a police station under Pune Rural jurisdiction in April 2019 after the then 16-year-old girl’s pregnancy was detected. Officials said that the father was 40 years old at the time. The girls’ parents were working as labourers and the family had moved to Pune from another district of Maharashtra in search of work, a few years prior to the registration of the case.

The crime came to light after the 16-year-old’s pregnancy was detected during an examination at a hospital. After the case was reported to the police, the girl opened up about the alleged repeated rapes by her father. “The probe had revealed that the father had raped the girl multiple times when the mother was not home. He had also assaulted her and had threatened not to tell anyone about the abuse,” an officer from the police station where the case was registered said.

After the case was registered, the father was arrested and charged under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections pertaining to rape and physical assault and provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. He has been lodged at Yerawada Central Prison as an undertrial since his arrest.

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A sessions court in Pune district on Tuesday sentenced the father to life imprisonment under provisions of the POCSO Act, to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment under Section 376 of the IPC for rape and for six months for the physical assault, an officer from Pune Rural police said.