It may be recalled that a recent Allahabad High Court judgment cleared a man who had been accused of attempting to rape and then killing a 100-year-old woman.
The court held that it could not be denied that the deceased woman’s grandson might have filed the case with a view to claim compensation from the government being a Scheduled Caste.
The case was filed by the grandson of the victim, who claimed to be a member of the Scheduled Caste Category.
He informed the court that on the said date, the 29th day of October 2017, his 100-year-old grandmother was asleep on a cot on the verandah of the house while he and the respondent were in a room of the house. At around 11. At 11.30 pm, the children claimed to have heard their grandmother crying. When they went to check on the grandma, they claimed to have found the accused, who was completely drunk over the body of the grandma, trying to rape her.
The grandson went for the accused with the intention of arresting him, but the accused escaped from the scene. After this, the grandson, together with the wife of the grandson, carried the grandmother to the hospital.
An FIR was filed at 1. The informant was arrested at 45 am on October 30, 2017, under Section 458 and 376 of the IPC and Section 3(2)(5) of the SC/ST Act. Despite medical examination of the victim, she died at around 3:00 AM in the same night.
Therefore, after the investigation, a chargesheet was submitted by this SI with a demand for taking the following sections because the accused against women had committed: 458, 376, 302, and 506 of the IPC and 3(2)(5) of the of the SC/ST Act.
