A 65-year-old man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually assaulting a minor boy in Kerala. The gruesome incident happened in April last year, when the boy was going to a temple. A Kerala court announced imprisonment for the elderly man and a fine of Rs 15,000 on the convict, according to a PTI report.
Chilling Details Emerge
According to the prosecution, on the evening of April 8, 2025, while the minor boy was going to the temple, the accused called him closer under the pretext of giving a handshake.
When the boy extended his hand, the accused forcefully pulled him onto his lap and grabbed his private parts and also invited him to go to a pocket road nearby with sexual undertones, the prosecutor said.
What Kerala Court Said?
Thiruvananthapuram Fast Track Special Court judge Anju Meera Birla said there was no need to show any undue leniency to the accused as he had been sentenced to seven years in jail in the past for sexually assaulting a mentally challenged woman.
“The offence of rape as such is shocking to society. But that involves a boy. The same can be understood to have far-reaching consequences. At no point in time can the repeated acts of the accused be taken in a light vein to accept the argument that minimum punishment ought to be imposed on the accused.
The court further stated that there is no reason to show any leniency to the accused, noting that earlier, he had also been sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment for sexually assaulting a mentally challenged woman.
“This would be doing society a disfavour and sending the wrong message to the public in general. In the light of the repeated offence, there does not appear to be any reason to show any undue leniency to the accused,” the court said.
It also imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on the convict, special public prosecutor R S Vijay Mohan said.
