Sodomy case Childrenrsquos home guard not guilty

Delhi | Thursday | 15th November, 2018

Summary:

“The situation, in the present case, remains a classic, and unsolved ‘locked room mystery’, even while the man stands convicted and sentenced (by the trial court). The high court, in its 69-page judgement, noted that while the child was HIV positive, accused Amardeep Kujur tested negative and noted that there were allegations that the child was sexually assaulted multiple times. Sexual contact is, it is well known, the primary mode by which HIV virus is transmitted.”In the judgement, the high court said the mystery of how the assaulter entered the room where the minor was sleeping, and sodomised him day after day, remained unanswered. NEW DELHI: Terming it a “classic” and “unsolved” mystery , the Delhi high court acquitted a security guard of a children’s home of the charge of repeatedly sodomising minor orphan boy who is HIV positive Justice C Hari Shankar reversed the trial court’s verdict awarding 10-year jail to the accused, saying it would be a "travesty of justice" to convict him of having committed such an “unsolved” crime. This is entirely impermissible in law,” HC noted.While the child's father was in jail, his mother had died of HIV and, as there was not nobody to look after him, he was sent to the children home for boys..