New Delhi: A 75-year-old man was sentenced to life imprisonment for the digital rape of a 3-year-girl in Noida’s Sector 39 area in 2019.
The man, Akbar Alam, is from West Bengal’s Malda, but had been living in the area, The Quint reported.
Digital rape involves forcefully inserting one’s fingers into an individual’s private parts without consent. This is the first instance where life imprisonment has been awarded in such a case.
Special Public Prosecutor Neetu Bishnoi was quoted as saying, “The complainant said at 11 am that day, his daughter was playing outside her home. Alam lured her with toffee and took her to his room.” Bishnoi said that the girl’s father filed a police complaint on 21 January 2019. The complainant said, “My daughter came home crying and revealed her ordeal to her mother.”
The girl told the court that she was playing outside when Alam lured her into his room using toffees and went on to sexually assault her. The police have claimed that Alam lived at his son-in-law’s home in the neighbourhood, and added that no one was at home when he committed the crime.
Dr Pushplata, who conducted the medical examination, in her report, said, “There was no injury mark on the private part… In my medical report, any rape can’t be confirmed with medical inspection, adding that the internal inspection of the victim was found to be normal.”
Alam’s granddaughter, a defence witness, said that her family cooked meat two days before the incident and threw the bones on the neighbourhood, which caused a quarrel with the girl’s family and led to a false complaint. “The complaint registered is a false case against my grandfather,” she was quoted as saying in the report.
Alam’s lawyer Irshad Ali, meanwhile, said that he was not satisfied with the judgment, and added, “The medical report did not establish rape or assault. We will challenge this order in the high court,” The Quint reported.
