Mumbai: The particular POCSO court docket on Monday sentenced a 38-year-old father to 3 years imprisonment for sexually harassing his 11-year-old daughter underneath the affect of liquor.
The case towards the person, a resident of Juhu, was registered with the Santacruz police station on the grievance of his spouse and mom of the sufferer on January 27, 2017. The mom claimed that she registered the case after her daughter revealed about indecent acts of her husband and sexual harassment to her whereas she was at work.
When examined by the general public prosecutor Vinod Extra, the lady in her testimony said that at any time when she used to come back again to the home from faculty, her father used to the touch her inappropriately. Apart from, the lady claimed that her father used to threaten her saying he would kill her mom if she instructed about this to anybody. Apart from, it was additionally claimed that the accused would usually name the lady and ask her to say ‘I like you’.
In 2016, identified with Dengue, the sufferer pleaded together with her mom to not depart her alone, revealing her father’s harassment. Tearfully, the sufferer disclosed inappropriate touching by the daddy whereas alone at house since August 2016. The sufferer’s mom later filed an FIR after her daughter’s discharge, the claimed in her proof.
The prosecution closely relied on the proof of the mom and the sufferer and held the daddy responsible of sexual harassment.
