Former Meghalaya police officer Nurul Islam sentenced to life imprisonment for rapping two minor sisters in gunpoint

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Dibya Kamal Bordoloi

Islam raped a 14-year-old- girl at the Ampati police station on March 13, 2013, and raped her for the second time on March 14. On March 31, the same year, he raped her 17-year-old elder sister at gunpoint.

 

Shillong: Former Meghalaya police officer Nurul Islam is sent to life imprisonment by a POCSO court in Shillong on Monday for raping two minor girls in 2013.

A POCSO court in Shillong awarded life imprisonment to the former police officer Nurul Islam for raping and threatening two minor sisters at a police station in South West Garo Hills district in 2013.

Rapist Nurul Islam was then the officer-in-charge of the Ampati police station. He raped the two sisters at the Ampati police station in the Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. 

Islam raped a 14-year-old- girl at the Ampati police station on March 13, 2013, and raped her for the second time on March 14. On March 31, the same year, he raped her 17-year-old elder sister at gunpoint. The father of the victims then filed an FIR against rapist Nurul Islam.

In his FIR, the father of the victim minor girls mentioned Islam threatened to kill both the victims and also to implicate them in criminal cases if they dared to inform anyone about the crime.

The Shillong POCSO court convicted Islam last week. Convicted of the heinous crime, the court jailed him for life and fined Rupees 8 lakhs. The money collected would be paid to the victims.

Nurul Islam was found guilty and convicted for committing offences defined and punishable under the POCSO Act, 2012 and also the IPC Act, the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court had said, on last Thursday (March 24).

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