BIHARSHARIF: Judges in Bihar were setting examples of fast-track trials as a court for juvenile criminals in Nalanda tried, convicted and sentenced on Friday a 14-year-old suspect to three years in a remand home for raping a girl, 4, from his village on October 8. This followed a Pocso court in Bihar’s Araria district completing its hearing and sentencing of a rape suspect in a single day on October 4, beating the previous record of a Datia district court in Madhya Pradesh that concluded in August 2018 a rape trial in three days.
Manvendra Mishra, principal judge at Nalanda’s juvenile justice board, completed the trial after examining five witnesses, including the doctor who conducted the rape survivor’s physical examination and the investigating officer. The girl’s statement was recorded. The judge took circumstantial evidence such as bloodstained clothes, FIR copy, and forensic report of the bloodstains into account while pronouncing the judgment.
Though this was his only offence, he has showed an “ability to commit crime and he cannot be released in the best interest of society”, said judge Mishra as he sentenced the teenager to two three-year terms, both running concurrently. He asked authorities of the remand home to ensure periodical psychological counselling for the juvenile and deduction of time spent in custody from the quantum of punishment.
The teenager was accused of rape and taken into custody following a complaint from the girl’s mother.
Additional public prosecutor Rajesh Pathak said the boy was arrested the day the crime was committed and charges under IPC and the Pocso law were framed against him on November 25.
Manvendra Mishra, principal judge at Nalanda’s juvenile justice board, completed the trial after examining five witnesses, including the doctor who conducted the rape survivor’s physical examination and the investigating officer. The girl’s statement was recorded. The judge took circumstantial evidence such as bloodstained clothes, FIR copy, and forensic report of the bloodstains into account while pronouncing the judgment.
Though this was his only offence, he has showed an “ability to commit crime and he cannot be released in the best interest of society”, said judge Mishra as he sentenced the teenager to two three-year terms, both running concurrently. He asked authorities of the remand home to ensure periodical psychological counselling for the juvenile and deduction of time spent in custody from the quantum of punishment.
The teenager was accused of rape and taken into custody following a complaint from the girl’s mother.
Additional public prosecutor Rajesh Pathak said the boy was arrested the day the crime was committed and charges under IPC and the Pocso law were framed against him on November 25.
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