The Bombay High Court last month dismissed an appeal filed by one Sunil Ramteke, a 28-year-old labourer from Nagpur, who was convicted under 376(2)(i)(j) read with Section 109 of the Indian Penal Code and under provisions of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 for abetting the rape of a 13-year-old girl in Fegad village.
Justice VM Deshpande of the Nagpur bench heard Ramteke’s appeal and concluded that he was abettor and he abetted co-accused Golu to commit rape on the victim, a minor girl.
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