Justice finally served: 4 years after the crime, rapist of a 10-year-old sent to jail

After four years of mental trauma for being kidnapped and raped, Anjali (name changed) this year saw her rapist being sentenced to prison for 10 years.

Anjali was studying in class 10 in a government school in Najafgarh at the time of the incident.

She knew Dilip Kumar for some time as he often used to buy cigarettes from the shop run by Anjali's mother.

Anjali told the trial court that on December 12, 2012, Dilip came to her house and then raped her.

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She said Dilip convinced her to believe that her parents would not accept her and she will have to be on her own. He even told her that she could accompany him to Ahmedabad where he would enroll her in the computer and English courses. Anjali then left home with Dilip.

On December 15, 2012, Anjali's parents filed a missing person's report suspecting that their daughter was induced and kidnapped by an unknown person.

Interestingly, Dilip had introduced his own parents as his uncle and aunt with whom he was living. It later turned out that Dilip was married and had a seven-year-old son.

Anjali soon realised that she was being fooled by Dilip's family and tried to run away from the house but her attempt failed.

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However, she got hold of a phone one day and called up her parents. Anjali was rescued in January 2013 from Dilip's house. Following his arrest, Dilip had fled from the police station and was later caught while trying to escape with his son.

Dilip's counsel claimed that Anjali's statement had inconsistencies. However, the court observed that the inconsistencies were not serious in nature to affect the case.

"As a criminal trial is not a fairy tale and with the passage of time some inconsistencies are bound to occur as the victim remains in stress when she remembers the incident. It gives her thunder jolt and she has to narrate the incident to someone," the court observed.

While convicting Dilip, the court observed that being a married man and a father of a child, he induced Anjali and repeatedly raped her. "She will have to face the social stigma throughout her life and would not be in a position to forget the mental agony," the court said.