The Jammu Kashmir High Court on Thursday observed that the crimes against women were on the rise and the respect was declining for women.
Hearing a rape case, the Division Bench of J-K High Court, comprising Justice Sanjay Dhar and Justice Rajesh Sekhri upheld the life imprisonment of a man accused of raping his granddaughter.
Bodh Raj of Jammu had been convicted by a trial court in 2013 for committing rape on his 1-year-old granddaughter in 2011.
“Shiver runs down the spine to know that a maternal grandfather has gratified his animated passion and sexual lust by ravishing his one-year-old granddaughter,” recorded the Bench. It observed that crimes against women, particularly rape, had been on the increase as of late. “It is unfortunate that respect for women in our country is on a steep decline. Of late, cases relating to molestation, outraging of modesty, and rape are on the rise day by day. Decency, morality, and moral values of the Indian society, which we treasured and were proud of, appear to have vanished,” the Court remarked, as per a report by Bar and Bench.
Bodh Raj fled from the room where the one-year-old child was found bleeding and crying.
Upon medical examination, the doctors observed that the child’s hymen had been torn and that there were fresh injuries on her genitals.
“The offence committed by the appellant is gruesome, which a normal human being would not even think of,” the Bench concluded while dismissing the appeal of the appellant to cancel the life imprisonment sentence.