Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 27: 3rd Additional Sessions Judge Jammu Haq Nawaz Zargar today awarded 10 years rigorous imprisonment to one Amir Sheikh, son of Mushtaq Ahmed of Udharana Doda in a rape case.
After hearing Surekha Bhat, APP for the State whereas Advocate AK Shan for the accused, the court observed, “though all sexual assaults on female children are not reported and do not come to light yet there is an alarming and shocking increase of sexual offences committed on children”.
“This is due to the reasons that children are ignorant of the act of rape and are not able to offer resistance and becomes easy prey for lusty brutes who display the unscrupulous, deceitful and insidious art of luring female children and young girls”, the court said, adding “offenders who are menace to the civilized society should be mercilessly and inexorably punished in the severest terms”.
With these observations, court awarded 10 years rigorous imprisonment to the accused.
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