Summary:
more-inAn additional sessions court here has awarded rigorous imprisonment of 10 years to two persons who abused a girl with partial mental disability. During the trial, the psychiatrist who had examined the girl testified before the court that the victim’s IQ level was 53 as against the average level of 110. Pronouncing the order, judge Biju Menon found Krishnan, 67, and Sreedharan, 63, both residents of Nedumbassery, guilty of abusing the girl in a room near the Kerala Judicial Academy at Athani on several occasions between September and December 2016. Her ordeal came to light when she revealed the episode to her classmates, teachers and a relative. The victim, then a higher secondary school student, was waiting for her bus at Athani junction when the duo forcibly took her to their room and abused her..