: Kerala HC reduces jail sentence of former priest for raping minor from 20 years to 10 years #IndiaNEWS The Kerala High Court on Wednesday reduced the punishment of a former Roman Catholic priest who

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Kerala HC reduces jail sentence of former priest for raping minor from 20 years to 10 years #IndiaNEWS
The Kerala High Court on Wednesday reduced the punishment of a former Roman Catholic priest who was convicted of raping and impregnating a woman in 2016 when she was a minor, reported Bar and Bench.Justice R Narayana Pisharadi reduced the sentence of Robin Vadakkamcherry of the St Sebastian Church from 20 years of rigorous imprisonment to 10 years. Vadakkamcherry had filed a review petition of a trial court’s order that had sentenced him. The judge altered Vadakkamcherry’s conviction under under Section 376 (2)(f) to offences under Section 376(1) of the Indian Penal Code. “Section 376 (2)(f) of the Indian Penal Code is attracted when a person who being a relative, guardian or teacher of, or a person in a position of trust or authority towards the woman, commits rape on such woman,� the judge said.He added: “Merely for the reason that the appellant/accused was the priest/vicar of the local church, it cannot be found that he had held any position of trust or authority towards the victim girl.�While Section 376(1) lays down the provisions for punishment for rape under which jail sentence can be awarded between seven and 10 years, subsection 2 details conditions for punishment when a person of authority, including police officers and public servants, take advantage of their position....Read more

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