22-year-old labourer gets 20 years in jail for raping six-year-old in Botad in 2018

Rajkot: A 22-year-old man was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment on Wednesday by a sessions court in Botad district for raping a six-year-old girl in November 2018.
Additional sessions judge Virendra Rajput while imposing a fine of Rs 5,000 on the accused Kuldip Parmar, directed government to pay Rs 5 lakh to the rape survivor. The court convicted Parmar, a labourer, under IPC sections 376 (a)(b) and POCSO Act.
According to case details, the accused lured the little girl with a kite on November 29, 2018, when her parents were out for work in the factory. When the girl’s parents returned, they found blood on her leggings and took her to civil hospital where doctors confirmed that she has been sexually assaulted.
Later police got a sketch of the accused made with the help of the survivor and her siblings, who had also seen Parmar.
The police had formed seven teams comprising 150 cops to nab the accused. They also explored scientific evidence like blood samples and DNA testing and also took the help of a dog squad to nab the accused.
Cops took the help of a child psychiatrist used technical surveillance methods like mobile phone call details to trace the suspect.