“PhD scholar gets 5 lifers for raping minors, posting videos online”, Rediff, July 9, 2024:
“A special court in Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur on Tuesday sentenced a PhD scholar to five life imprisonments, to be served concurrently, for sexually assaulting minors and posting videos of the acts on the Internet to make money, officials said.
Victor James Raja, a 35-year-old PhD scholar from Tamil Nadu, was sentenced on five counts of aggregative penetrative sexual assault on minor victims under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act along with a total fine of Rs 6,54,000 for various offences, they said.
The court has also directed him to pay Rs 4 lakh to each of his victims, they said. According to the officials, the verdict came nearly 14 months after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a charge sheet against Raja……”
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