Delhi, April 13: A DELHI court on Monday convicted a man for raping his daughter and fathering her baby. The court trashed his plea that she was a consenting party. It observed: “Submission of the body under the influence of fear or terror is no consent.” Additional sessions judge Kamini Lau termed the incident as shocking and held accused Sant Ram alias Sadhu Ram guilty under the IPC dealing with rape and criminal intimidation.
“ Mere act of helpless resignation in the face of inevitable compulsion, nonresistance or passive giving in, when volitional faculty is either crowded by fear or vitiated by duress cannot be deemed to be consent,” the court said.
The court considered the forensic reports which proved the accused fathered the child of his daughter.
The court, which is to announce the quantum of sentence next week, said the statement of the victim alone was sufficient to drive home the guilt of the accused.
During trial, the victim stood firm on her statement given to the police and testified that her father had been raping her and in the absence of her mother he treated her like his wife.
–PTI