Man gets 10 years in jail for raping stepdaughter

A 38-year-old man was sentenced to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment by a sessions court for raping his 12-year-old stepdaughter. The man identified as Pandi,a daily wage labourer,lived with the victim’s mother in a shanty in Jogeshwari.

The accused had — on February 17 — found the victim alone, raped her and threatened her from telling it to anyone. The victim,scared initially,finally mustered courage and narrated the incident to her grandmother. The victim was then taken to her biological father Kandaswamy.

“My parents had separated years ago but I was still in touch with my biological father. On his insistence,we registered a police complaint,” the victim stated in her statement.

Looking at the seriousness of the crime and taking the victim’s age into consideration,a sessions court sentenced Pandi to 10 years’ imprisonment.