One sent to jail for sexual assault
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 20 2023:
Special Court POCSO Imphal East has remanded a 27-year-old man to judicial custody and a juvenile to observation home on charge of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a minor girl on the pretext of taking her to a Thabal Chongba.
The 27-year-old man has been identified as Lairik-yengbam Richie s/o Tapon of New Checkon.
L Richie and the juvenile were arrested on March 12 one day after the alleged crime.
Both of them were produced before the Court today after completion of police custody period by a team of Imphal East Women police station.
In the Court, the Investigating Officer of the case, through Additional Public Prosecutor, submitted that on March 12, the mother of the minor victim lodged a complaint at the Women PS, Imphal East alleging that her daughter was kidnapped by the accused persons in a four wheeler vehicle from their residential gate at around 8.30 pm of March 11 .
Thereafter, the accused persons allegedly served the victim with alcohol which resulted in her losing consciousness.
They then took the victim to the house of the juvenile accused person and allegedly assaulted her sexually.
The victim was then given a contraceptive pill and was dropped near the gate of her residence before fleeing, alleged the complaint.
The IO, through the APP, also submitted that during the police custody interrogation, Richie allegedly disclosed that he came to know the minor through the juvenile and on March 11, they went to pick up the victim for going to a Thabal Chongba.
However, on reaching Mongjam hill area, he took the victim to the hill side and "sexually assaulted" her.
They then took the victim to the residence of the juvenile where they "sexually assaulted" the minor.
The next day, they dropped the victim near the gate of her residence.
From the facts and circumstances, it is well established that the accused persons had planned to kidnap the minor victim with criminal intention to commit sexually assault, said the APP praying the Court to send L Richie to judicial custody and the juvenile to observation home.The Court, on perusal of the case record and after hearing the submissions of the IO, remanded Richie to judicial custody and the juvenile to observation home till April 3 .