Six additional males involved in the Ajmer sex scandal, which involved the rape and blackmail of over 100 girls, have been given life sentences by a POCSO court. Each of the offenders was additionally fined ₹5 lakh by the court.
Nafees Chishti, Naseem alias Tarzan, Salim Chishti, Iqbal Bhati, Sohail Gani, and Sayed Zameer Hussain were found guilty of their roles in the Ajmer sex scandal that surfaced in 1992, according to prosecution attorney Virendra Singh.
Girls in their twenties who attended schools and colleges were befriended by gang members who took their pictures in unsafe settings and then sexually assaulted them. In all, 18 people were charged in this case.
The counsel said that the first charge sheet in the case was filed against 12.
Among the accused, Naseem alias Tarzan went absconding in 1994, while Jahur Chishti was found guilty under Section 377 (unnatural sex), and his case was transferred to another court.
Farooq Chishti’s trial proceeded separately after he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2007. Additionally, one of the accused committed suicide.
The other eight accused were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1998. A second charge sheet was filed against Nafees Chishti, Salim Chishti, Iqbal Bhati, Sohail Gani, Sayed Zameer Hussain, and Almas, who remains at large.
The remaining five accused including Nafees Chishti, Salim Chishti, Iqbal Bhati, Sohail Gani, Sayed Zameer Hussain, and Naseem alias Tarzan who were named in the first charge sheet and had been absconding, were sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday.
The other accused, who had been sentenced previously, have either completed their terms or been acquitted by the courts. The lawyer explained that a separate trial was conducted for the six remaining accused because their investigation was pending at the time of the first charge sheet. The victims, who attended a prominent private school in Ajmer, were lured to a farmhouse where they were raped.
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