Sonu Punjaban gets 24 years jail in kidnapping case
| Date :23-Jul-2020 |
NEW DELHI :
A DELHI court on Wednesday sentenced sex racketeer Geeta Arora, alias Sonu Punjaban, to 24 years rigorous imprisonment and her associate Sandeep Bedwal to 20 years in a case of kidnapping and prostitution of a minor girl.
The 12-year-old victim was kidnapped by Bedwal on September 11, 2009 and was sold and re-sold to a score of people, including Sonu Punjaban, for the purpose of prostitution. While sentencing Sonu Punjaban, Additional Session Judge Pritam Singh of the Dwarka court held that she does not deserve any leniency as she crossed all limits to be called a woman and deserved the severest punishment provided under the law. “How a woman can outrage and brutalise the modesty of another woman, who is minor, in such a horrific way.
The shameful deeds of convict Geeta Arora deprives her of any leniency from the courts,” the judge rules. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 64,000 on her and sentenced her to 24 years of rigorous imprisonment for not only purchasing the minor for prostitution but brutalising her. Sonu will first undergo 14 years jail term for offences under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, followed by 10 years for offences such as procuration of minor, slavery, selling and buying minor for prostitution, poisoning, wrongful confinement and criminal conspiracy.
Bedwal, on whom a fine of Rs 65,000 was slapped, will first serve 10 years jail term for kidnapping, procuration of minor, slavery, selling minor for prostitution, and criminal conspiracy, followed by 10 years for rape of the minor.