Jaipur’s ‘serial child rapist’ sentenced to second life term | Jaipur News

JAIPUR: Four years after he was sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a seven-year-old girl in the city’s Shastri Nagar area in 2019, Sikander Khan, also known as Jeevanu, was sentenced to another life term on Saturday for raping a four-year-old girl in the same area the same year.

Pocso court judge Narendra Malawat, who sentenced 50-year-old Khan, also imposed a fine of over Rs 100,000. Special public prosecutor Mahavir Kishanawat called Sikander a “serial rapist”. Referring to the present case, Kishanawat said the four-year-old girl’s uncle had filed a police complaint on June 23, 2019, stating that the child had gone missing at 10 am while playing outside their house. tnn

She was dropped off with injuries on a motorcycle by an unknown man at 2pm the same day and taken to Kanwatia Hospital. She told her family and the police that an “uncle” took her on a motorcycle to a drain, where he raped her and cut her tongue with a knife when she screamed.

After this rape, Khan fled to Kota on a motorcycle, Kishanawat said. A team of Jaipur police led by then police commissioner Anand Srivastava and deputy police commissioner Ajay Pal Lamba launched a massive manhunt for him. Khan was arrested in Kota and within a month, charges were filed against him.

DCP Rashi Dogra, Additional DCP Bajrang Singh Shekhawat and ACP Bhopal Singh Bhati have been closely monitoring the case. Statements of 39 witnesses and 166 pieces of evidence have been submitted to the court to ensure Khan’s conviction in this case, Kishanawat said. In the previous case, which had earned Khan a life sentence, the seven-year-old rape survivor’s father had filed an FIR on July 1, 2019, stating that the girl had gone to buy biscuits from a neighbourhood shop when she was intercepted by a man on a motorcycle. Police investigation revealed that this man was Khan.

(The identity of the victim has not been disclosed to protect her privacy in accordance with Supreme Court guidelines in sexual assault cases.)