Nishikant Karlikar | TNN | Jun 24, 2018, 03:48 IST

THANE: The sessions court on Friday convicted and sentenced a 24-year-old man to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment for kidnapping and raping a 17-year-old girl from Guna, Madhya Pradesh.
Judge S C Khalipe held Shivam Kalawat guilty under Indian Penal Code sections 376 (2)(n) (repeated rape), 363 (kidnapping), 365 (kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person) and 344 (wrongful confinement for 10 or more days), and also under Protection of Children Act, and fined him Rs40,000.

While two accomplices were acquitted, one died during pendency of the trial, prosecutor Rekha Hiwrale said. She told court that the accused also confined her at various places and finally took her to Vashi for prostitution.
They raped her several times between May and August 2015, Hiwrale told the court. The victim had escaped and contacted an NGO, which helped her lodge a complaint with police in Vashi on August 18, 2015.
The judge observed that the prosecution proved their guilt beyond reasonable doubt. He sentenced the accused to various jail terms, the maximum of which was 10 years. He also directed the district legal services authority to compensate the victim within two months, Hiwrale said.
Those acquitted were Archana Kalawat (25) and Sunil aka Prakash Patel (35). Sita Kalawat, the mother of the accused, died during pendency of the trial.

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