POCSO COURT, JAIPUR CONVICTS 6 ACCUSED TO LIFE IMPORTANT AFTER 32 YEARS
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The indicted were doomed in Offence committed of Rape & Blackmailing.
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In a major verdict in notorious 1992 Ajmer Sex scandal, which involved the rape and exploitation of over 100 minor girls, a single- judge bench of Ranjan Singh, J., set up six individuals guilty of gang rape and doomed them for life imprisonment for the heinous crime. The Court also slighted fine of Rs 5 lakh on each of the indicted. Members of the influential Khadim family, including Farooq and Nafis Chishti, led a group of youthful men who were indicted of these heinous acts. They used a farmhouse to gang- rape and blackmail youthful women, who were latterly mugged in compromising positions to intimidate them into silence.
Local authorities were apprehensive of these felonious conditioning for over to a time before any legal action was taken. Farooq Chishti, one of the main perpetrators, was set up to have befriended a youthful girl from Sophia Senior Secondary Academy in Ajmer, taking obscene prints of her and using them to force her into introducing him to other girls.' Dainik Navjyoti' reported that over 250 victims, progressed between 11 and 20, were affected.
The incident came to light when the obscene prints were blurted, egging the police to take action. In September 1992, 18 individuals were charged, with the first eight doomed to life imprisonment. Still, four of these were latterly acquitted by the Rajasthan High Court in 2001. In 2007, a fast- track court condemned Farooq Chishti, but he was released on time served by the High Court in 2013.
An aggregate of 18 individuals were intertwined in the sex scandal, out of which 9 were preliminarily doomed, 1 committed suicide, 1 was latterly charged with molesting a boy, 1 was declared a fugitive by the court and 6 indicted completed their trial in July 2024. 8 indicted who were preliminarily doomed to life imprisonment appealed to the High Court, which resulted in acquittal of 4 indicted and upheld conviction for other 4 indicted. The 4 condemned indicted latterly appealed to the Supreme Court in 2003, and the Supreme Court reduced their rulings from life imprisonment to 10 years.
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WRITTEN BY: Alok G. Chhaparwal
GUIDED BY: ADVOCATE ANIK
