Gujarat: Former JAU student gets 10 years for eloping with minor

  • | Thursday | 28th March, 2019

The complaint stated that Vadaliya took the minor girl to Ahmedabad and thereafter to Siddhpur. Subsequent to his arrest he has been involved in many criminal cases including under the Arms Act, loot at petrol pump in November 2018 and couple of other cases. However, the court rejected the argument.“Considering the statement of the minor and upon examination of the witnesses and evidence, the court convicted the accused under Section 6 of the Pocso Act and IPC Section 363 for kidnapping a minor.”According to lawyers, Vadaliya was a bright student before he was arrested. RAJKOT: A 25-year-old former student of Junagadh Agriculture University, was sentenced to 10 years in jail by a court in Dhoraji for abduction and rape of a minor girl with whom he had allegedly eloped in December 2014.Dhoraji session judge Hemant Kumar Dave found Ajay Vadaliya guilty under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offence (Pocso) Act, abduction and various Sections of the Indian Penal Code. They were from the same village Pipaliya in Dhoraji.The complaint lodged by the girl’s parents at Patanvav police station stated that on December 27, 2014, Vadaliya had lured their daughter with the promise of marriage while the intention was to sexually exploit her.At the time of the elopement, Vadaliya was a student at JAU doing diploma in horticulture and Bsc in Agriculture.

RAJKOT: A 25-year-old former student of Junagadh Agriculture University, was sentenced to 10 years in jail by a court in Dhoraji for abduction and rape of a minor girl with whom he had allegedly eloped in December 2014.Dhoraji session judge Hemant Kumar Dave found Ajay Vadaliya guilty under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offence (Pocso) Act, abduction and various Sections of the Indian Penal Code. Besides sentencing Vadaliya to 10 years imprisonment, the court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on him.The court also rejected Vadaliya’s defence that under Shariya law, girls below 15 years are allowed to marry.According to case details, Vadaliya was 20 years old and the girl, who belongs to the minority community, was 14 years and nine months old when the incident occurred in December 2014. They were from the same village Pipaliya in Dhoraji.The complaint lodged by the girl’s parents at Patanvav police station stated that on December 27, 2014, Vadaliya had lured their daughter with the promise of marriage while the intention was to sexually exploit her.At the time of the elopement, Vadaliya was a student at JAU doing diploma in horticulture and Bsc in Agriculture. The complaint stated that Vadaliya took the minor girl to Ahmedabad and thereafter to Siddhpur. However, when Vadaliya came to know about the abduction case registered against him he returned to his village where he was arrested.Assistant public prosecutor Kartikey Parekh said that during the trial the girl told the court that Vadaliya had abducted her from the school and forced her to have sex with him multiple times during a period of six days.Vadaliya’s lawyer had argued before court that according to Islam a girl below 15 years was allowed to marry. However, the court rejected the argument.“Considering the statement of the minor and upon examination of the witnesses and evidence, the court convicted the accused under Section 6 of the Pocso Act and IPC Section 363 for kidnapping a minor.”According to lawyers, Vadaliya was a bright student before he was arrested. Subsequent to his arrest he has been involved in many criminal cases including under the Arms Act, loot at petrol pump in November 2018 and couple of other cases.

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