Assam Rifles jawan will get 10 years jail time period for rape try on minor

By PTI

ITANAGAR: A particular court docket in Tirap district of Arunachal Pradesh has sentenced an Assam Rifles jawan to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for felony trespassing, kidnapping and making an attempt to rape a lady eight years in the past.

Besides the convict, Barun Singh, yet another jawan of the power was concerned within the crime however the sufferer couldn’t determine him.

“The duty of the convict is to provide safety and security to civilians and such heinous offence from a person employed in the paramilitary force was not expected,” Special Judge (POCSO) H Kashyap stated within the judgment.

The incident befell in Changlang on January 22, 2014, when Singh with the assistance of one other jawan trespassed into the residence of a neighbour, forcefully kidnapped the lady, took her to the Assam Rifles campus and tried to rape her.

Singh who was then posted at Changlang was later arrested by the police.

In the order handed on Friday, the court docket referred the matter to the Changlang district authorized companies authority for offering sufficient compensation to the sufferer underneath the Arunachal Pradesh Victim Compensation Scheme, 2011.