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Procedural punishment: 28 years after police complaint, magistrate records statement of rape victim

A rape-victim progressed to the statement-recording stage before the magistrate in her rape-complaint, 28 years after she filed a police complaint alleging rape, reported The Hindu.

“We got the victim to record her statement in the court of Principal District and Sessions Judge Bandipora on 6 October. The rape case had been filed in 1987,” public prosecutor Shafeeq Ahmad Bhat was quoted as saying in The Hindu’s report.

It was reported that the victim’s statement could not be recorded before the court for nearly three decades as the prime accused in the case was absconding. Two of the accused have died during the course of the trial, the third accused is in custody. Now, the prime accused has been asked to appear before 5 November at the court through a public notice published in newspapers, otherwise the court would attach the property of the accused.

The incident occurred in 1987 when the prosecutrix was 17 years old. She was abducted from her home and confined to a hotel in Srinagar where she was allegedly repeatedly raped by the accused for 12 days.

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