Police constable Sunil More, who raped a teenaged collegian in broad daylight inside a police outpost at Marine Drive in Mumbai last year, was today sentenced to 12 years' rigorous imprisonment by a local court.
The Judge in his judgement said the police constable, who is to maintain law and order and protect the lives of others, had committed a crime which resulted in public outcry and left a mental scar on the victim.
The public prosecutor argued that this is not an ordinary case and public confidence has been shaken at large and stringent punishment is necessary to satisfy the victim and society AND pleaded before the court to give maximum punishment to the accused, considering the gravity of the crime so that no one should dare to commit such a crime.
(This rape took place when the Home Ministry of Maharashtra (under which the police department comes) was busy in gaining accolades for raising higher moral standards in society by banning dance in the bars.)
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What is the difference in rigorous punishment as apposed to normal punishment- does it involve a slap on the wrist like here? I'm all for offenders being given harder sentences- - in Britain we tend to favour the offender rather thatn the victim- if they get even so much as more than the minimum sentence we have human rights activists all over them. We have cases were there have been rapes on innocent children and babies and offenders are given a pitiful 2 or 3 years, normally in comfortale prisons with tvs playstations and the like.