Chandigarh woman gets one-year jail for assaulting five-year-old step daughter

According to the lawsuit details, Kaur was accused of assaulting her stepdaughter and fracturing her leg. The enactment was caught connected video by the girl’s elder brother, who recorded Kaur putting the kid wrong a jute container and repeatedly slamming her connected the ground. Their father, Manmohan Singh, aboriginal filed a constabulary ailment against Kaur.

Singh had 2 children from his archetypal marriage, portion Kaur, who was divorced earlier marrying him, had a girl from her erstwhile marriage. The mates lived successful Sector 29 erstwhile the incidental took place. Based connected the video evidence, constabulary registered a lawsuit against Kaur connected December 3, 2017, astatine the Industrial Area Phase 1 constabulary station. She was arrested 4 days aboriginal from a relative’s location successful Sector 27.

During the trial, Kaur’s defence counsel argued that she was falsely implicated owed to a matrimonial quality with Singh. The court, aft reviewing the evidence, ruled that determination was nary aesculapian impervious to corroborate the child’s limb was fractured owed to Kaur’s actions.

However, the tribunal recovered her blameworthy of battle successful 2 instances: erstwhile successful April 2017, erstwhile she enactment the kid successful a sack, and again successful May 2017, erstwhile she slapped the child. The prosecution, however, failed to beryllium 2 different allegations—that Kaur fractured the girl’s limb and smashed her caput against a partition successful September 2017.

The tribunal besides criticised Manmohan Singh for filming the maltreatment alternatively of intervening. “Without doubt, the behaviour of complainant Manmohan Singh is besides blameworthy successful this case. Instead of stopping the accused, helium chose to marque videos. The anticipation cannot beryllium ruled retired that helium himself encouraged the accused to punish the kid to ‘mend her ways,’” the judgement stated.

While noting that Kaur had scolded the kid successful the videos for wetting the furniture and lying, the tribunal emphasised that treating a five-year-old with specified cruelty could person lasting effects connected her life. It added that had the kid died from the abuse, Kaur could person been blameworthy of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. However, since that was not the case, she was convicted of battle and acquitted of the much superior charge.

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