Shillong, Mar 25: A POCSO Court has convicted former Meghalaya police officer Nurul Islam for rape of two minor sisters in South West Garo Hills district in 2013. However, the quantum of sentence will be announced on Monday.
Hearing the case on Thursday, Special POCSO Court Judge FS Sangma found the accused guilty of the heinous crime and said: “Nurul Islam is found guilty and convicted for committing offences defined and punishable under POCSO Act, 2012 and also IPC Act”.
Islam raped the two sisters – a 14-year-old- girl at the Ampati police station, while he was in-charge of the police station, on March 13 – 14, 2013. On March 31 the same year, he raped the victim’s 17-year-old elder sister too at gunpoint following which the father of the victims filed an FIR against the officer in charge. The father of the victims, in his FIR, had alleged that Islam threatened to kill both the victims and also to implicate them in criminal cases if they dared to inform anyone about the crime.
Subsequently, Islam was dismissed from service after being charge-sheeted in the rape case but escaped from police custody. He later surrendered in front of a Court in Shillong.
Special Public Prosecutor POCSO Court Evalarisha Rynjah informed that she has asked the Judge for a maximum sentence which is life imprisonment.
