{"id":43255,"date":"2016-06-02T17:35:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T12:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=43255"},"modified":"2016-06-03T04:49:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T23:19:51","slug":"phd-scholar-gets-life-tem-raping-minor-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/phd-scholar-gets-life-tem-raping-minor-girl","title":{"rendered":"PhD scholar gets life tem for raping minor girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37805\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/jail.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37805\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/4-years-jail-to-24-year-old-youth-for-stabbing-man\/jail-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/jail.jpg?fit=281%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"281,180\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"jail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/jail.jpg?fit=281%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-37805 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/jail.jpg?resize=281%2C180&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"PhD scholar gets life tem for raping minor girl\" width=\"281\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PhD scholar gets life tem for raping minor girl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A PhD scholar of Visva Bharati University in Santiniketan, Md. Safikul Islam, was today sentenced to life imprisonment for raping and blackmailing a minor girl student of Visva Bharati Higher Secondary School.<\/p>\n<p>The sentence was pronounced by Additional District and Session Judge, Birbhum, Mahananda Das.<\/p>\n<p>The case was tried in a special court assigned to hear cases under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.<\/p>\n<p>Syed Samidul Alam, government lawyer, said that the girl from Dhaka in Bangladesh, a student of class XII, was taken to the rented house of the PhD scholar, who hailed from Bangladesh&#8217;s Sirajganj district and was the local guardian of the girl, at Gurupalli locality in Santiniketan on August 5, 2014 and raped.<\/p>\n<p>Islam then recorded some photographs of her in various compromising positions with his mobile phone and blackmailed her not to make the crime public, otherwise the photographs would be circulated.<\/p>\n<p>For consecutive four months, the man sexually abused the girl in his rented house. Eventually, she gathered courage to lodge a complaint with the Santiniketan police station on December 5, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Safikul was slapped with charges under Section 4 of POCSO Act.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to life in jail, Safikul was ordered to pay a fine of Rs 10,000, Alam said.<\/p>\n<p>West Bengal government has been ordered by the court to pay the girl Rs five lakh as compensation.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A PhD scholar of Visva Bharati University in Santiniketan, Md. Safikul Islam, was today sentenced to life imprisonment for raping and blackmailing a minor girl student of Visva Bharati Higher Secondary School. The sentence was pronounced by Additional District and Session Judge, Birbhum, Mahananda Das. 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