Delhi High Court grants interim bail to convict in POCSO case due to father's death
New Delhi:
Delhi High Court
granted two weeks' interim bail to a woman convict, sentenced to 25 years of rigorous imprisonment in a POCSO case, on the grounds of her father's death.
The vacation bench of Justice Pratibha M Singh heard the plea of the convict, a former security guard at a private hospital in southeast Delhi, who was sentenced under various provisions of the POCSO Act.
On June 18, the court noted that she was convicted of aggravated penetrative sexual assault, abetment, and failure to report or record the offence, and was subsequently awarded the sentence.
The court also imposed other conditions, such as the convict only visiting her village residence, reporting daily at the police station concerned, keeping her mobile number operational at all times, and surrendering after two weeks.
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