Daijiworld Media Network - Kasargod (SP)

Kasargod, Jun 21: The first additional district and sessions court here has sentenced a person accused of inflicting sexual harassment on a girl, to ten years of rigorous imprisonment along with fine of Rs 50,000. He has been ordered to undergo six months of additional imprisonment if he fails to pay fine as per the judgement.

The judge has passed an order directing the authorities to disburse the amount of fine to the girl who faced harassment as compensation. He also  instructed the district legal services authority to take imperative steps to see that the victim receives financial assistance for which minor girls facing such harassment are eligible to from the government.

Sheikh Ziaulla alias Mustafa (38), a resident of Ulavoor in Chikkanahalli, Tumakuru district, Karnataka, has been found guilty of this heinous act and sentenced.

Mustafa was facing a case of meting out sexual harassment to the girl who was living with him along with a woman in the house in Mangalpady where Mustafa lived, between 2010 and 2014. He also was accused of taking the girl away from their rented house,  and entrusting her to four others with the tacit aim of enabling them to sexually assault her. A case in this respect had been filed in Kumble police station.

Jasmin from Chitradurga, Basheer from Mangaluru, as well as Ramesh and Hasainar from the town too had been booked for similar offence by Kumble police. But so far they have not been able to arrest these four accused persons.

Special public prosecutor, Sudheer Melott, had argued the case on behalf of the prosecution.