Rape convict
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 20 2017:
Special Judge POCSO Imphal East, Gaiphulshillu Golmei has convicted a man of raping a minor girl.
The man has been identified as Laishram Bijoy (53) s/o (L) Gambhir of Pangei Yangdong.
He was convicted under Section 10 of POCSO Act.
The conviction order was passed by the Court yesterday after the final argument hearing of the of the special trial case number 9 of 2015 with reference to FIR number 34 (4) 2014 Heingang police station registered under Section 376 of IPC and Section 4 of POCSO Act.
The Court has set June 23 for sentence hearing of the case.
The trial of the case started from December 6, 2015 after charge sheet was submitted by Investigation Officer of the case on July 30, 2015.The Court had recorded statement of eight prosecution witnesses and four defense witnesses.
It may be mentioned that the incident came to light after the victim's mother lodged a complaint with Heingang police station on April 23, 2014 alleging that her daughter was sexually assaulted by the man who works at Economics and Statistic Department as a driver.
He was arrested the next day.
According to the complainant, her daughter was raped by the man on March 26, 2014 in a rented room at Pangei Bazar where their family members used to stay.