Rape accused convicted, penalty later
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 31 2015 :
The Sessions Court, Imphal East today convicted Laishram Joykumar (44) of Tangkham in the rape case of a differently abled woman, who is also mentally unstable.
The quantum of punishment is likely to be announced on August 4 .
Sessions Court, Imphal East Judge A Guneshwor Sharma convicted Joykumar under Section 376 and 376 (L) (committing rape on a woman suffering from mentally and physical disability) and Section 448 (punishment for house-trespass) during the final argument hearing of the case today.
The judgment was announced after perusing the statements of the rape survivor and witnesses, medical examination reports and arguments of prosecution and defence counsels.
The case was transferred to Sessions Court, Imphal East from CJM Imphal East on March 3 last year.
Trial of the case began on March 13 with the framing of charges against the accused by the Court.
During the trial, 16 prosecution witnesses and four defence witnesses deposed before the Court.
It may be mentioned that the incident occurred at around 7.30 pm on October 11, 2013 during Durga Puja festival.
Nobody was there in the victim's house when Joykumar barged into the house and repeatedly raped the woman.
He also threatened to kill her if she disclosed the crime to anybody.
However, the rape survivor narrated the whole incident to her mother on October 13, 2013 .
Later, the victim's mother lodged a complaint against Joykumar at Heingang police station the same day.
He was arrested by a team of Heingang police at around 8.30 am the next day.
Medical examinations of the accused and victim were conducted on different dates at Department of Forensic Medicine of RIMS.
Joykumar is a teacher and brother-in-law of the rape survivor.