Sushree Mohanty
A Chhattisgarh fast track court has sentenced a fake doctor to two prison terms of 20 years each on charges of assaulting and raping two sisters on the pretext of treating them in 2017.
As stated by the Special Public Prosecutor Tarachand Kosale, the court, in its request have said that the two sentences will run simultaneously, which adds up to a 40-year prison term for the crime.
Additional Sessions Judge Pooja Jaiswal indicted Samay Lal Dewangan (48), a Gandhi Nagar resident, under section 376(2)(n) (committing assault repeatedly on the same woman) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and condemned him to two prison terms of 20 years each for raping the two sisters.
The court likewise directed the convict to deposit a fine of Rs 10,000 with the concerned authority.
In December 2016, The two sisters, then aged 21 years and 19 years, complained of severe stomach and waist pain and consequently were taken for treatment by their family members.
The prosecutor stated that Dewangan began raping the two sisters since mid 2017 on the pretext of treating them through “black magic.”
He had also cautioned the siblings of extreme consequences in case they revealed about the occurrence to anybody in the family.
The crime became known in September 2017 when the sisters revealed about the situation to their parents and consequently a complaint was documented at the Gudhiyari police station.
The accused was then detained and a case charging him of committing repeated on the two sisters rape was filed.