New Delhi, Dec 10 (Inditop.com) Four years after a Delhi University student was raped in a moving car near Dhaula Kuan here, a city court Thursday sentenced the convict to 14 years in prison.
Additional Sessions Judge Neeraj Kumar Gupta sentenced Ajit Singh Katiyar for abduction, rape and criminal intimidation. The court also fined him Rs.20,000.
Katiyar was convicted Dec 8.
During the arguments, the public prosecutor demanded maximum punishment of life imprisonment for Katiyar saying that at the time of incident the girl was “very young” and her whole life has been ruined by the crime.
However, the defence counsel said Katiyar was innocent and the other three accused, yet to be arrested, were the real culprits.
In 2005, four men in a Santro car abducted the student, who belongs to the northeast, from near a Dhaula Kuan eatery late at night. After forcibly dragging the girl into the car, the men raped her.
They later threw her out of the car near a gurdwara at Dhaula Kuan.
Katiyar, a driver with a Noida-based call centre, was arrested five days later and was identified by the victim in an identification parade conducted inside Tihar Jail.
The other three accused – Danda, Jat and Tappe – evaded arrest and were declared proclaimed offenders.
