A former police officer has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping and threatening two minor sisters at a police station in South West Garo Hills in 2013.
The POCSO court here awarded life imprisonment to Nurul Islam who was then the officer in-charge of Ampati police station when he committed the crime against the two sisters at the police station.
Islam was convicted by the POCSO court on March 24. The sentence was pronounced today by the court.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 8 lakh on Islam to be paid to the victims.
Islam was found guilty and convicted under POCSO Act, 2012 and also various sections of IPC.
Islam raped a 14-year-old- girl at the Ampati police station on March 13, and also on March 14, 2013.
On March 31 the same year, he raped her 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, in his FIR, alleged Islam threatened to kill both the victims and also to implicate them in criminal cases if they dared to inform anyone about the crime.
The investigation of the case was later shifted to East Khasi Hills district considering the sensitivity of the case.
