Badlega India
The Bidar district session court sentenced Maruthi Amreppa Taare to life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5,000 for raping a 14-year old girl for 10 years. The court ordered the district administration to seize his property and give a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the survivor.
In 2002, SDMC chairman of a government primary school, Maruthi, then 34 years old, started stalking a class 8 girl at Aurad town in Bidar district.
He was already married with two children. He told the girl’s family he would marry her but they didn’t agree to it and sent her to Mangaluru for studies.
Maruthi went to Mangaluru and brought her to his town and married her at home. The girl’s parents did not oppose this as they mistook it as love from both the sides. They had been living together since then. Maruthi ensured she aborted the fetus as she became pregnant 9 times. But on the tenth occasion, he didn’t do it and they finally they had a child. He wasn’t comfortable with this child so he abandoned the baby at an orphanage in Udagir, Maharashtra.
In 2012, she became pregnant again and Maruthi tried to take her to a hospital for abortion. When she refused to go ahead with it, the furious Maruthi threw her out of the house. The pregnant girl returned her parents’ house and filed a complaint of rape at Aurad police station.
District session court judge Sanjeevkumar Hanchate pronounced the judgement and public prosecutor Ramachandra Lamane argued on behalf of police on Thursday.
