UP man gets life sentence for raping woman and concealing her identity | India News

UP man gets life sentence for raping woman and concealing her identity

Bareilly, A court here has convicted a 25-year-old man life imprisonmentconvicted him of raping and threatening a student after forging his identity, a lawyer said Tuesday. The court of Additional Sessions Judge (Fast Track Court-First) Ravi Kumar Diwakar also sentenced Sabir, the convict’s 65-year-old father, to two years’ imprisonment for aiding his son in the crime, the lawyer said.
Additional District Commissioner Digambar Singh Patel said a student, who was pursuing a computer course at a coaching center here, lodged a complaint against it Mohammad Alim of keeping his identity secret and raping her two years ago.
The student claimed that Alim told her his name was Anand and that he was wearing a ‘Kalawa’ on his wrist.
According to Patel, Alim performed a ritual marriage with her on March 13, 2022 and promised to marry her in court within 10 days.
Alim then allegedly took her into the room and raped her and also filmed the act, he said.
He later threatened to publish the contents, took her to a hotel several times and raped her. When she became pregnant, he started avoiding her.
In May 2022, she was forced to have an abortion, the lawyer said.
The student claimed that she later learned that Anand’s real name was Mohammad Alim. She also claimed that Alim’s family tried to convert her to marry.
Judge Diwakar on Monday sentenced Alim to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on him, Patel said.