Police book cases against 6 for assaulting SC teen, making him fall at their feet in TN’s Madurai
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) (PTI): The Usilampatti police in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai district booked cases against six persons allegedly for assaulting a Scheduled Caste teenager and forcing him to prostrate before them, a police official said on Monday.
The police action followed a complaint preferred by the 19-year-old boy in connection with an incident on January 16, the official said.
Cases under sections 296 (b), and 351 (2) of BNS, besides 3 (1) (r) and 3 (1) (s) of the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, were registered against the six persons.
In his complaint the teenager from Sankampatti in Usilampatti said that six caste Hindus took offence when he walked in the village with his dhoti folded at the knees during the Purattasi festival, a few months ago. This led to an argument between the two resulting in a clash between them.
Apprehending further trouble, the lad stayed outside the village for some days and returned home for the Pongal festival holidays but only to be ‘forcibly’ taken to a remote place in the village and assaulted, the police said.
The assailants reportedly made casteist remarks and physically attacked him, police added. The complainant claimed that he was forced to prostrate before each of the six persons and was allowed to go with a stern warning, police further said.
In a statement here, the police claimed that the case was registered based on the teenager’s complaint and denied that the suspects had urinated on him. Further investigation was on.
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Sanjoy Roy sentenced to life imprisonment till death in rape, murder of RG Kar hospital doctor
Kolkata: A Kolkata court sentenced Sanjoy Roy to life imprisonment till death on Monday after he was convicted of rape and murder of an on-duty doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Anirban Das in Sealdah had on Saturday held Roy guilty of the crime committed against the postgraduate trainee doctor at the hospital on August 9 last year, which sparked off unprecedented and prolonged nationwide protests.
Judge Das said the crime did not fall under the "rarest of the rare" category as justification for not giving death penalty to the convict.
The court also directed the state to pay a compensation of Rs 17 lakh to the family of the deceased doctor.
The sentence was passed after the judge heard the final statements of the convict and his counsels placed in self-defence as well as those of the victim’s family, and the CBI.
Roy, a former civic volunteer with the Kolkata Police, was held guilty under Sections 64 (rape), 66 (punishment for causing death), and 103(1) (murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
