Former BSF DIG K C Padhi (centre) at the district court in Sector 43, in Chandigarh on Wednesday. (Photo: Sahil Walia)
A CBI court Wednesday sentenced to 10 years imprisonment five men, including former BSF DIG K C Padhi and former J&K Police DSP Mohammad Ashraf Mir, convicted in the 2006 Jammu and Kashmir sex abuse scandal case.
Rejecting the plea for leniency, the court said that the rape of a minor by senior officers could not be condoned as “public kept faith on them as protectors”. All five were taken into custody and sent to the Burail jail in Chandigarh.
Padhi and Mir were fined Rs 1 lakh each, while the others — Shabbir Ahmad Laway, Shabbir Ahmad Langoo and Masood Ahmad — were fined Rs 50,000 each. They were sentenced to imprisonment under Section 376 (rape) of the Ranbir Penal Code by Additional District and Sessions Judge Gagan Geet Kaur.
All five were held guilty on May 30 and were produced in court Wednesday. The court, while pronouncing the quantum of sentence, observed: “…The court does not see any mitigating circumstances for awarding sentence of imprisonment for a term of less than seven years to any of the convicts.”
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