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Shelter Home Case: CBI Seeks Life Sentence for Brajesh Thakur

A Delhi court said it will announce the quantum of sentence for Thakur and other convicts on 11 February. 

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A Delhi court on Tuesday, 4 February, said it will announce the quantum of sentence for Brajesh Thakur and 18 others, convicted of sexually and physically assaulting several girls in a shelter home in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, on 11 February.

Additional Sessions Judge Saurabh Kulshreshtha, reserved the order for 11 February, after the counsel appearing for CBI sought life imprisonment till remainder of life for Thakur.

The agency also sought maximum punishment for rest of the convicts. The convicts have sought minimum punishment from the court.

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The court had on 20 January convicted Thakur, who once unsuccessfully contested Assembly polls on Bihar People’s Party (BPP) ticket, of several offences including aggravated penetrative sexual assault under section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, and offences of rape and gang rape under the Indian Penal code (IPC).

In its bulky judgment running into 1,546 pages, the court had also convicted Thakur of offences under Indian Penal Code Sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 324 (causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and those relating to abetment, section 21 (failure to report commission of an offence) of the POCSO Act and section 75 (cruelty to child) of the Juvenile Justice Act.

The offences entail a maximum punishment of life imprisonment.

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