A Kerala court on Friday sentenced an ambulance driver to life imprisonment for raping a 19-year-old woman while she was being transported to a Covid care centre in September 2020.<\/p>\n
V Noufal, the ambulance driver, was transporting the patient from a medical centre to a Covid care centre opened by the state government. Instead of taking her to the Centre, he took her to another place and sexually assaulted her.<\/p>\n
After the incident, Noufal apologised to her, which she had recorded on her mobile phone.<\/p>\n
R. Binu, the Kerala Police official who headed the probe, said it was a difficult case as the state was under lockdown.<\/p>\n
“We found it hard to get evidence, and it was after a team work we were able to get all the evidence and filed the charge sheet,” said Binu.<\/p>\n
The police managed to get evidence from 55 people.<\/p>\n
It was the Pathanamthitta District and Sessions Judge N. Harikumar who pronounced the sentence against Noufal.<\/p>\n
The victim had reported the incident to the healthcare workers in the centre, where she was put up as she was Covid-positive.<\/p>\n
Soon, the police took her statement, and Noufal was arrested.<\/p>\n
Noufal has been found guilty of multiple charges, including rape and others.<\/p>\n
The Court also found him guilty under Sections of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, which deals with sexual offences against SC\/ST women and prescribed enhanced punishment when such offences are committed by a person not belonging to a Scheduled Caste or Tribe.<\/p>\n
The Court also directed him to pay a total fine of Rs 1,08,000, which is to be given as compensation to the survivor.<\/p>\n
The Court had found him guilty of the crime on Thursday, and the verdict was announced on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Kerala Police official who probed the case further added that getting the crucial evidence took a long time from the concerned medical professionals as they were posted at different places.<\/p>\n
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